Wednesday, September 2, 2020

September 2, 2020 It's evening again in Joe Biden's America By Simon de Hunderhutte

 

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September 2, 2020

It's evening again in Joe Biden's America

By Simon de Hunderhutte



The spin is in.

Now that backing the rioters and looters wreaking havoc across the country is a negative for the Democrats, they're blaming the whole mess on Donald Trump.

So, what's the best counter-punch to this typical far-left blame game?

Back in 1984, when President Ronald Reagan was running for re-election, his public relations firm produced one of the most memorable and effective campaign ads in recent history.  Titled "Morning again in America," the ad was narrated by a soothing-voice actor accompanied by visuals: men and women going to work, a small-town wedding, flags — the usual endearing pictures from pretty much Anywhere, USA.

Well, one night last week, while I was again watching news footage of yet another American town ablaze, accompanied by looters running amok as they screamed their vacuous rhetoric in the streets, I turned to my wife and, in a soothing voice, said, "It's evening again in Joe Biden's America."


Then I thought, hey, wouldn't that make the perfect ad for the RNC?  Heck, I'd make it myself if I could edit the video.  All I'd need is 60 seconds from what must be hours of riotous video at this point — and some spot-on copy to be read by a smooth-as-silk voice-over actor.

I googled the copy from the original Reagan ad and did a Joe Biden pilfering act on some of it so it "rang true," and I wrote it all up.  Now all I need is for some enterprising film editor to find a similar V.O. actor (oh, and don't forget to slap together some soothing music in the background!) and put together the script below (tweak it and/or credit me if you'd like).  Then post it on Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and Instagram and whatever:

It's Evening Again in Joe Biden's America

(V.O.)  It's evening again in Joe Biden's America.

Tonight, more men and women than ever before in our country's history will fear for their lives in what were previously safe neighborhoods — by dawn's early light, their homes and their businesses may be burned to the ground.

Citizens of this once-great nation have no confidence in the future, because godless thugs who declare that "some lives matter" have no respect for ANY one's life.

Under cover of darkness, these psycho-sloganists have emerged from their parents' basements — jazzed on K-cup espressos and month-old Twinkies, armed with frozen water bottles and rocky pieces of garden gnomes.  They lurch onward into someone else's neighborhood — or are bused in by the über-rich who've never once needed to call for an Uber.

Under the bunker-based leadership of a man whose now no more than a cheap wax-museum figure of his former self, Joe Biden, many of the Democrat-run parts of the country are adrift in self-hatred, tribalism, and cancel-culture shenanigans.

Yes, it's evening again in Joe Biden's America — but why would you want to continue with four more years of Donald Trump's vision of safety in the streets?  What's wrong with you?  Only a racist — like Trump — would want to do that.

Check your privilege at the door, pal.

(Biden Sound-alike) I'm Joe Biden and...what was it I was supposed to approve again?

Image credit: KGW8 via YouTube screen shot, processed with FotoSkecher.
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September 2, 2020 Here's what's behind white guilt By Peter Skurkiss

 

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September 2, 2020

Here's what's behind white guilt

By Peter Skurkiss

Universities and colleges have long been indoctrinating that whiteness is an evil that must be shamed into the corner and apologized for.  At first, a subtle approach was used to propagate this message.  In that way, this radical concept was able to fly under the radar of the general public and thereby invoke little resistance.  But as time went on, its promoters in the seats of higher learning became bolder and bolder.  What was once implied or presented only in between the lines was made explicit.  Before you knew it, "White Is Evil" was formalized into a doctrine of politically correct belief that was not to be questioned on campus. 

Following the lead of the universities, many corporations and government agencies fell in line.  They started putting their employees through training programs to insure that even the most unrepentant of whites learned of their 1) privilege and 2) culpability in the sins of Western civilization.  This brainwashing has now even seeped down to the lowest levels of the K–12 public school system.

Many people now feel ashamed of being Caucasian and go through life carrying the burden of white guilt on their shoulders.  The late Susan Sontag claimed that the white race is "the cancer of human history."  That's an insane thought, but though their positions in the universities and media, leftists have been propagating this very idea.  Unfortunately, it has taken root with far too many.  This is especially true of the young, who have been subjected to more intense brainwashing than older generations.  But self-hatred goes against human nature, so why are many susceptible to believing such a counter-intuitive idea?  It's because of two other human traits. 

It begins with envy.  In his book Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior, sociologist Helmut Schoeck writes: "Envy is a drive which lies at the core of man's life as a social being."  He also repeats the obvious that envy is a destructive force.  This is why the Church lists it as one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Envy can occur when there is a gap between individuals or between one group and another. The gap can be in various things — beauty, personality, income, achievement, etc.  The greater the gap, the greater the potential for envy.  Take Europe as one example.  Europeans believe they are the pinnacle of civilization and should be recognized as such.  Yet they stand in the shadow of America's power, wealth, and dominance of the popular culture.  As a result, Western Europe deeply envies America, which explains much of its knee-jerk animus toward this country. 


But it's the flip-side of the envy coin that explains why so many people are susceptible to the white guilt propaganda.  It is the fear of being envied by others.  This has been well articulated by Jack Wheeler, who writes at ToThePointNews.  He notes that the fear of envy is "very deep-seated in the human psyche." 

Fear is a powerful motivator.  Wheeler says an inordinate fear of being envied is what drives liberals and those infected by the liberal mentality to go into an envy appeasement mode.  And the more pampered and well off they are, the more they grovel.  They apologize for their sex if they are males, for their race if they're white, for their religion if they're Christian, for their country if they're Americans, and even for Western civilization.  Fear of being envied by others is the fertile soil from which the weeds of white guilt take root and grow. 

One final point worth mentioning.  Schoeck makes an insightful comparison between jealousy and envy.  This is pertinent to what is going on in the country today.  He says the jealous man wants to take the achievements or possessions of another.  The envious man, however, is different. 

...the envier has little interest in the transfer of anything of value from the other's possession to his own.  He would like to see the other person robbed, dispossessed, stripped, humiliated, or hurt, but he practically never conjures up a detailed mental picture of how a transfer of the other's possession to himself might occur.

Accordingly, the rioters and anarchists are tormented by two inner demons.  One is the envy of normal, middle-class society.  This explains much of the vandalism of historic monuments and statutes and the disorders in many cities.  Antifa is not trying to possess anything, although some opportunists do take advantage of the chaos to steal.  Rather, they are acting out a nihilistic urge to destroy for the sake of destroying.  Their attitude is basically "if I can't have a peaceful middle class life-style, it, you can't have it, either." 

The other demon driving them is white guilt based on the fear of being envied by the underclass.  By lashing out at the system that shelters; nourishes; and yes, even babies them, individuals in Antifa are trying to appease the envy of those less fortunate born than they.  They use the police shooting of blacks as a pretext for this posturing.  The message they're trying to convey is, "See?  See?  I hate 'the man' as much as you do.  Please don't envy me."

Image credit: Pixabay public domain.
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September 2, 2020 Public television couldn't stop slanting convention coverage By G. Murphy Donovan

 

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September 2, 2020

Public television couldn't stop slanting convention coverage

By G. Murphy Donovan

I am an equal opportunity political observer. 

I watched or listened to both the Democrat and Republican national nominating conventions from gavel to gavel.  Call me a masochist if you will, but truth today is a lot like tilling a vacant lot.  You have to clear a lot of garbage and pull a lot of weeds before you can expect to see a turnip or a tomato.

If you followed the recent American political conventions, several things should be obvious.  First, in spite of all the media posturing about the epic significance of 2020, mainstream convention coverage was AWOL.  No matter.  After the fact, commercial network "coverage" is all opinion and spin anyway.

The only honest or true, gavel-to-gavel, coverage appeared at C-SPAN, where all speakers spoke for themselves without interruption.  C-SPAN, unlike PBS, has enough respect for voters to allow listeners and viewers to make their own judgments.

The other broadcast network that "claims" gavel-to-gavel coverage is public television.  The contrast between PBS and C-SPAN is the perfect illustration of the difference between facts and political propaganda, real reporting and selective editing.  Apparently, PBS doesn't believe that consumers can watch or listen without a WETA public television interpreter.  With 2020, American public radio and television, like the BBC, has become a government-subsidized outlet for left-wing, if not extremist agitprop and disinformation.


PBS, however, is still a true non-profit. Surely there is little to profit viewers or voters looking for impartial coverage or fair commentary.

My quadrennial torture began with the Democrats in mid-August watching Judy Woodruff and the big fail at WETA and NewsHour.

Hot mess is the only fair assessment of WETA's virtual performance with team DNC.  Not only did Woodruff shred and butcher convention speakers, but she seemed to be channeling Sleepy Joe.

Judy didn't seem to know where she was, what was on her screen, or who was at the convention dais.  She was confused and flummoxed throughout, not knowing who had spoken or was about to speak, cutting in and out of presentations incoherently.

Absent production values, the supporting cast for Woodruff's PBS fiasco was all opinion, a gaggle of the usual suspects — mainly three feminist lieutenants and an editorial panel of effete Beltway castrati including Michael Beschloss.

As I watched the PBS circus mangle, interrupt, and try to spin the Democrat convention, I looked for another way, without cable, to see how the Republicans would fare.

My wife offered a genius solution: listen to C-SPAN, and watch a muted WETA/PBS public broadcast. The results were astounding.

PBS blacked out or talked over some of the most interesting and engaging Republican speakers.  In one session, Woodruff overrode two prominent congresswomen and two distinguished veterans for 30 minutes of banal and biased commentary.  Throughout, it was clear that WETA was going to limit, censor, or spin any Republican segments that might touch on inconvenient truths like abortion, Republican women, Trump Democrats, veterans, or Biden family shenanigans in Ukraine and China.

The arrogance of PBS's condescending and patronizing spin is a hallmark of "non-profits" feeding at the taxpayer trough.  Alas, the price to be paid for overkill is blowback.

After one Republican session, I listened to the usual C-SPAN telephone post-show, which features Democrat, Republican, and independent call-in phone lines.  The C-SPAN host took about 50 calls on all lines, and only one caller was vaguely critical of the Republicans or President Trump.

Trump support among C-SPAN callers that night was virtually unanimous.

Omens matter.  With allies like PBS, Biden and Harris do not need enemies.

G. Murphy Donovan writes about the politics of national security.

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September 2, 2020 Self-defense in an America where laws are disregarded By Peter Rosenberger

 

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September 2, 2020

Self-defense in an America where laws are disregarded

By Peter Rosenberger

Emboldened by the lack of consequences, the political left in this country has escalated from yelling at people in restaurants to physical assaults, property destruction, and even murder.  Senator Rand Paul's account of the harrowing events of the leftist mob following the last night of the Republican convention serves as another reminder for Americans to consider their personal safety.

Self-defense is often an uncomfortable topic for many.  A friend recently asked what he should do in circumstances where he and his wife are accosted in public.  Setting aside the grief that this is even a topic in our country, he referred to his own health issues as an impediment to self-defense.  My response: "The question needs to be asked and answered long before any altercation."

"What are you prepared to do?"

Now in my 35th year as a caregiver for my wife who lives with severe disabilities, I clearly understand the need for her protection — and mine.  While she cannot be left defenseless, she also cannot be left without a caregiver.  Both of her legs are amputated below the knee, and fleeing on prosthetic legs is not an option in an assault.  When flight remains impossible, fight is the only option.

If, while in an urban area (which I have no plans to ever visit again), a mob approaches our vehicle, the decision is already made.  The vehicle becomes the instrument of self-defense, and the mob endures the consequences.  When the choice is to trust one's vehicle versus the benevolence of a mob, the car wins every time.  Being pulled from a vehicle could be a death sentence for either of both of us, so one prepares for the worst.  Preparation always beats "luck."



YouTube screen grab.

Living defenseless in an America allowing lawlessness in urban areas is like playing Russian roulette.  Doing so while caring for an impaired loved one approaches suicidal.  Part of self-defense often involves owning a firearm.  Since an unloaded and inaccessible weapon is useless, a gun-owner bears the responsibility of learning to properly wield and secure the firearm.  Furthermore, if one is a caregiver, that weapon must never be accessible to an impaired loved one (or child).

When violent assault is upon you and a loved one you care for, self-defense remains paramount.  Yet the fear of legal charges leads many down an erroneous path of passivism.  If attacked by lawbreakers, caregivers themselves may be required to become law enforcement.  The legal consequences cannot be as important as survival in those moments.  At the beginning of my martial arts instructions, my instructor often stated, "I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six."

While some may cringe at such statements, serving as a caregiver provides clarity and perspective about self-defense.  Self-defense is not about bloodlust or rage.  Standing between an assaulter and a loved one in a wheelchair is not about hating the one in front of you, but rather loving the helpless one behind you.

The challenge is to prepare for those moments long before they arrive.  For an increasing number of Americans, those moments are here.

The left continues the absurd desire to defund the police — which makes pillaging and plundering much easier.  Yet, in a world where elected officials fail to discharge their responsibilities while receiving cover from a compliant media, one cannot solely depend upon the protection of even fully funded police officers.  Ironically, the same terms used to describe law enforcement also describe the role of a family caregiver: to serve and protect. 

Family caregivers are often the first — and last — line of defense for the most vulnerable among us.  Now, more than ever, we have a responsibility to be prepared.

Peter Rosenberger is the host of the nationally syndicated radio program Hope for the Caregiver.  Peter is a 2nd Dan in Hapkido. www.hopeforthecaregiver.  
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