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Kristi Noem for president (in 2024)
And Tom Cotton for VP. Watch it through. If you start, you will get to the end, and it is half an hour long.
She gets it in a way almost no one else does, other than Donald Trump. And the “it” that she gets are the principles of both political freedom and economic freedom and how these should be melded into dealing with the Covid-1984, What’s more, with her you get Donald and Melania all in a single package.
Watch the vid and then check out its source: POSTED ON JULY 8, 2020 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN CONSERVATISM, CORONAVIRUS, REPUBLICANS CHECK OUT ONE OF THE GOP’S BRIGHTEST STARS.
Copy to Scott Morrison, Daniel Andrews and especially Michael O’Brien (who?). O’Brien especially needs to learn the principles necessary to make the case against Dangerous Dan. As for Scott, see CL on Speak for Yourself.
Speaking truth to power edition
What’s more, you don’t even have to be white.
Every action in politics may have an unequal and very opposite reaction
The following are both about the same thing: President Trump is about to go after Antifa and their friends. No holds barred in dealing with the enemies of civilisation.
PDT speech at Mt Rushmore
Plus some context
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PLUS THIS: I was going to add that I thought this was the best speech Donald Trump has ever given, but thought I would see what others said first. I am not alone on this. You might have a look at this comments thread at Instapundit. These are the first four under the heading of “best”.
Trump gave them Hell tonight. I honestly have been depressed by all the COVID crap and antifa crap and the inevitablity of the enemies of freedom. Trump removed all that with a speech and I feel better. Wow, what a president.
In theory, Presidential elections are about competing visions of what America is and what America can or ought to be, as well the personalities of the candidates. Tonight at Mount Rushmore Trump made the 2020 campaign about the idea of America itself. America versus whatever the Democrats think comes after America, because they’ve made it clear they’ve rejected America. And it was the Democrat’s own rioting, pillaging, looting, iconoclastic, BLM/antifa stormtroopers that made that possible.
Well I’ll be damned! I feel a little hope!
Absolutely pitch perfect and immensely inspiring. Really gives me a boost of enthusiasm. And we are going to hear more from Kristi Noem. It’s not inconceivable that she gets elected in 2024 as our first female President.
“If we don’t act now…”
Watch this first. You won’t be sorry if you do.
This is an article by Gen. Michael Flynn: If We Don’t Act, 2% of the People Are About To Control the Other 98%. And this is someone who knows whereof he speaks.
If the United States wants to survive the onslaught of socialism, if we are to continue to enjoy self-government and the liberty of our hard-fought freedoms, we have to understand there are two opposing forces: One is the “children of light” and the other is the “children of darkness.”
As I recently wrote, the art and exercise of self-governance require active participation by every American. I wasn’t kidding! And voting is only part of that active participation. Time and again, the silent majority have been overwhelmed by the “audacity and resolve” of small, well-organized, passionate groups. It’s now time for us, the silent majority (the indifferent), to demonstrate both.
A long article which you should read. He continues:
I believe the attacks being presented to us today are part of a well-orchestrated and well-funded effort that uses racism as its sword to aggravate our battlefield dispositions. This weapon is used to leverage and legitimize violence and crime, not to seek or serve the truth.
The dark forces’ weapons formed against us serve one purpose: to promote radical social change through power and control. Socialism and the creation of a socialist society are their ultimate goals.
He ends with this:
To the silent and currently indifferent majority: Wake up. America [Western Civilisation] is at risk of being lost in the dustbin of history to socialism. The very heart and soul of [our Western way of life] is at stake.
In war, as in life, most failure comes from inaction. We face a pivotal moment that can change the course of history.
We the people must challenge every politician at every level….
Now is the time to act.
No one can believe it. Mr DeBlasio is such a nice man. Daniel Andrews too. But there are barbarians at every turn and in every generation. How much did Lenin really care about anyone else? Same for Castro? Same for Mao (and Xi if it comes to that). Same for them all.
Did you watch it? They tried to warn us.
Parler liberté
There is now an alternative to Twitter: Liberal Media Sure Are Obsessed With Villifying #Parler As Alternative To Twitter. I’ve joined up and we shall see how many others do as well.
“A whopping 500,000 users [including Legal Insurrection] signed up for social-media platform Parler after Twitter shut down two conservative accounts this week”
And from the post:
There have been many attempts to create a Twitter alternative, but in the wake of Twitter’s decision to censor a tweet by President Trump and its permanent bans on prominent right-leaning accounts like that of meme master CarpeDonktum, Parler is attracting users at a startling rate.
So startling is the growth of Parler, a free speech-friendly Twitter alternative, that the leftstream and #NeverTrump media are attempting to vilify it as the refuge of racists and white supremacists and fascists. Oh my!
The headlines are hilarious:
- Newsweek: “Who Owns Parler? Social Media Platform Offers Safe Space for the Far Right”
- The Bulwark: “The Far Right Establishes Autonomous Zone Safe Space App Parler: ‘Free Speech!’ cry the snowflakes seeking a place to vent about their triggered feelings.”
- Hollywood Reporter: “‘I’m Done’: Right-Wing Personalities Ditching Twitter for Parler Over Claims of Censorship”
- Fast Company: “I joined Parler, the right-wing echo chamber’s new favorite alt-Twitter”
- Forbes: “As Twitter Labels Trump Tweets, Some Republicans Flock To New Social Media Site”
- Yahoo News: “Parler, a right-wing social media site, lures conservatives, but Trump sticks with Twitter — so far”
And why shouldn’t the President use both, at least for now?
Statue of limitations edition
Why it was whatever age I am right now.
Those who forget history are ignorant fools
Found at: Black Americans Turn Out To Defend Lincoln Emancipation Memorial From Extremists.
The statue, erected on April 14, 1876, stands in Lincoln Park and built with “contributions from hundreds of former slaves who wanted to pay tribute to the man who had proclaimed their freedom in 1863,” The Washington Post reported. “Just after Lincoln’s death, the [Western Sanitary Commission, which aided Civil War victims] had received an intriguing request from a former slave, who sent the commission $5 — her first earnings as a free woman — to help build a monument to Lincoln, ‘the best friend the colored people ever had.’ The commission began a fund-raising campaign and invited former slaves to contribute.”
Famed orator and author Frederick Douglass spoke at the unveiling of the memorial in Washington, D.C., saying, “The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.
“It has crowned and made glorious the high places of all civilized nations with the grandest and most enduring works of art, designed to illustrate the characters and perpetuate the memories of great public men,” Douglass continued. “It is the sentiment which from year to year adorns with fragrant and beautiful flowers the graves of our loyal, brave, and patriotic soldiers who fell in defence of the Union and liberty. It is the sentiment of gratitude and appreciation, which often, in presence of many who hear me, has filled yonder heights of Arlington with the eloquence of eulogy and the sublime enthusiasm of poetry and song; a sentiment which can never die while the Republic lives.”
Douglass later added, “We, the colored people, newly emancipated and rejoicing in our blood-bought freedom, near the close of the first century in the life of this Republic, have now and here unveiled, set apart, and dedicated a monument of enduring granite and bronze, in every line, feature, and figure of which the men of this generation may read, and those of after-coming generations may read, something of the exalted character and great works of Abraham Lincoln, the first martyr President of the United States.”
CV-19 update
Via Instapundit. Not to deny that it can kill you, but there are positive signs that you are unlikely to hear from Daniel Andrews.
Related: Hospital patients four times less likely to die now than they were in April, Oxford study finds.
Related: Heather Mac Donald: Where Are The Deaths? “In May, Georgia was the main target of expert contempt for its allegedly premature reopening. Since then, the media have gone silent, due to the state’s truly discouraging downward daily death toll from a high of 119 on April 7, long before the reopenings, to 10 on June 24. . . . There are no crises in hospital capacity anywhere in the country. Nursing homes, meat-packing plants, and prisons remain the main sources of new infections.”
Also: Getting Realistic About The Coronavirus Death Rate.
Nearly all the studies find between 10 and 100 times the number of total infections as reported infections, with the average somewhere around 20 to 25 times.
In other words, while the CDC reports 2.34 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus, the actual number of infected and recovered people may be closer to 50 million. (CDC Director Robert Redfield told journalists Thursday that the number of cases may be 10 times higher than the earlier 2.34 million.)
Thus, the death rate, which would be 5.2 percent based on that 2.34 million figure, is actually more like one-20th as high — or 0.26 percent.
It can be awful in some people, but overall it’s turning out to be nowhere near as bad as we feared a few months ago. And that’s good!
138Posted at 8:45 am by Glenn Reynolds`
Plus this.
WELL, THE PRESS WON’T SAY IT, SO YOU KIND OF HAVE TO: Seen on Facebook: “So there’s a COVID spike 3-4 weeks after the mass protests. Just saying.”
Related: Did Austin’s protests produce coronavirus spike? (Yes.)
192Posted at 8:04 am by Glenn Reynolds
Melbourne too, it seems.
Law of Markets 