Joe Smoked Out Of Cave Tent Monday And Defended Himself By Attacking Trump.

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JUST A REMINDER THAT BEFORE OBAMA & BIDEN WE HAD... No BLM NoAntifa No war on police No kneeling in sports No bans on Christianity in public schools No transvestites lecturing kindergarten children on gender ideology No bathroom confusion No race riots No mandated Islam teachings in all public schools. No support for Islamic Sharia Law inside the United States

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Biden attacked Trump for causing rioting.  Perhaps he forgot Trump passed legislation that  overturned the bill Biden voted for and which incarcerated mostly blacks to long sentences for engaging in minor  offenses.

Trump offered Democrat Mayors and Governors help in assisting them in restoring law and order and  his offer was rejected almost every time. Trump co-opted law and order and adherence to enforcement of laws already on the books. Biden and K 's response is incredulous.

Methinks Biden's accusations fall short if facts still mean anything but it can be effective messaging for those who are too dumb to think independently, ie. far too many Democrats..

From my perspective Biden proved again, Democrats are expert at accusing others for what they , themselves, are guilty of and do. Neat trick if you can get away with it and they generally can because the mass media loves to reinforce Democrat false narratives since they feel philosophically obligated to run protection and shield their Democrat friends.

Of course, as is also standard fare, Biden gave no insights into what he would do and nearly broke his neck rushing off the podium so he could avoid responding to soft ball questions Oh No, Joe: New Sets of Polling Shows Trump Gathering What He Needs for a 2020 Win ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Both Juan Williams and Donna Brazille are  poor excuses for journalists. Williams is an idiot and Brazille is a liar. Put them both together and you still do not get one decent reporter. If you want diversity surely there are brighter black liberals. Also, while I am blathering on my high horse, I am sick and tired of seeing white and black married couples on TV ads.  This subtle messaging is forced nonsense. Frankly it repels me because advertising has become marginalized and politicized.  Everything is becoming that way and it is divisive. Fire Him! Juan Williams’ Reaction To This Rnc Speaker Should Have Him Walking Out The Door In Shame ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Remember? Leftwing Violence Started After Obama Said to Take Guns to Knife Fights  By Erick-Woods Erickson In 2009, as the tea party formed to fight against the growth of government and Obamacare, media talking heads depicted the tea party as racist and violent. In the August recess of 2009, there were six arrests at congressional town halls, each of which the media trumpeted as proof the tea party was violent. In fact, all six arrests happened at a single townhall meeting and five of the six were union activists beating up a conservative black man. But the tea party was violent. In 2008, around the time of the Republican National Convention, a still unknown white twenty-something male approached the Texas Governor’s Mansion and threw a molotov cocktail at it. The mansion burned down. The case remains unsolved, though federal and state authorities have long presumed it was a left-leaning anarchist. In fact, around the same time, leftwing anarchists were fighting police in the streets of St. Paul, MN during the GOP’s convention and some plotted to go back to Texas to commit acts of violence. In 2010, Andrew Joseph Stack crashed a plane into an IRS building in Austin, TX. Members of the media immediately concluded he must have been a deranged tea party activist. In fact, Stack was both a nut and a Marxist whose suicide note attacked corporations and the Catholic Church. Also in 2010, John Patrick Bedell opened fire at the Pentagon. Again, the media jumped to the conclusion the shooter was of the tea party. But the Christian Science Monitor noted Bedell was an “anti-Bush registered Democrat who believed 9/11 was planned and carried out by the US government.” Also in 2010, James Jay Lee took hostages at the Discovery Channel and members of the media again initially presumed it was a tea party activist doing it. But it turned out Lee was a leftist who was upset about global warming. When Jared Lochner attempted to assassinate Congresswoman Giffords in 2011, the media rushed to tie it to both the tea party and Sarah Palin. More than once, while I was on CNN, I had to defend “warlike rhetoric” from the right, with everyone pretending politics had never used war metaphors before then. It turns out Lochner, to the extent he was political, was of the left, but was actually just mentally ill. In 2012, during the Republican National Convention, leftwing protestors stockpiled 300 tiles, bricks, pipes, and even riot gear to violently disrupt the RNC. Over and over, the media rushed to blame the tea party, and over and over it turned out the violent extremists were on the left. They all got memory-holed. Even James Hodgkinson quickly disappeared from the headlines the moment it turned out he was a Bernie Bro after his mass assassination attempt on Republican members of congress. It is worth noting that in 2010, three leftwing nuts committed acts of violence, but even today the Democrats and their friends in the media claim political violence only began with the rise of Donald Trump. In 2014, Ismaaiyl Brinsley traveled from Baltimore, MD to New York City and executed two New York police officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. The execution-style assassinations came on the heels of several public comments from Barack Obama and Eric Holder critical of American law enforcement after the Eric Garner situation. After Rudy Giuliani rushed out to blame the rhetoric from Obama and Holder, liberal editorialists in the press pushed back saying only the perpetrator could be blamed, not anyone’s rhetoric. The historic revisionism and excuse-making continues. Yesterday, Joe Biden gave a speech in which he sounded like he was in on the extortion. He claimed the violence would continue so long as Trump remained President. He claimed that Trump, uniquely, fostered the violence. Joe Biden is a man who once told black voters that Republicans would put them “back in chains.” He worked for a man who told his supporters to take guns to knife fights, told Hispanic voters to punish their enemies who he identified as Republicans, and encouraged his voters to get in their neighbors’ faces. Obama’s campaign also pioneered sending postcards to voters and setting up websites where they could see if their neighbors were Republicans or if they had voted. Again, the media revisionists ignore all of this to claim Trump is uniquely bad. When Democrats, including Joe Biden, denounce the violence, they do just that. They only denounce violence. Republicans are specifically asked to denounce individuals and groups while Democrats get to just denounce violence generally. When Donald Trump denounced the violence on both sides in Charlottesville, VA, he was excoriated by the press. Biden denounces both sides and gets a pass. Democrats have settled on a line that the current violence is happening in Donald Trump’s America. They ignore it is only happening in Democrat-controlled cities and is being committed not by Trump supporters, but by far-left activists. They move on from that point as quickly as they moved on from the attempted mass assassination of members of Congress when they found out a Bernie Bro pulled the trigger. Three weeks ago, in Portland, the media claimed the violence was unique to a federal troop presence. Three weeks removed the violence still rages and Trump is still to blame. The Mayor of Portland has again blasted the President for his rhetoric and refused help in quelling the riots. At CNN, in fact, while using a picture of a burning building that was burned during the riots, Chris Cilizza is trying to dismiss the dictionary definition of riots by claiming they are really just protests. To be fair, cancer being bad and Chris Cilizza being an idiot are about the only two things on which the right and left find common ground these days. Riots and violence have happened since the moment Donald Trump was sworn into office. Should we forget the cars set on fire by protests in DC that day? That was not the Russians or Chinese. It was progressive activists who have consistently and constantly been given a pass by the media. Chris Cuomo and other members of the press praised Antifa. They compared Antifa to the American soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy. They cannot now admit they were wrong. In fact, they do not want to admit they were wrong. Instead, they blame Donald Trump. It is really weird how Donald Trump provokes all this violence, but it is not his supporters who are burning down American cities. Right now, the press is demanding President Trump condemn Kyle Rittenhouse, the Kenosha shooter who allegedly shot three and killed two in self-defense. Concurrently, the media has not asked either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris to repudiate Harris’s effort to raise money to get out of jail the people burning down America. This actually does make me angry. There are issues on which to hold the President accountable for provocation, etc. But the media only and ever always insists Republicans denounce specific people and groups while claiming purity of purpose for the Democrats and giving them a pass. They claim the political violence did not happen before Trump and, if it did, Republicans were to blame then too. The record shows otherwise so the media ignores it. On August 15, 2012, inspired by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s website, much like James Hodgkinson, Floyd Lee Corkins walked into the Christian conservative Family Research Council with a gun and a bag of 15 Chick-Fil-A sandwiches. He intended to murder the employees of FRC and stuff their mouths with the sandwiches. “They endorse Chick-fil-A and also Chick-fil-A came out against gay marriage, so I was going to use that as a statement,” Corkins told investigators. Thankfully, Corkins never got past the guard. The guard took a bullet to the shoulder but was able to tackle Corkins. 2008 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014 were before Donald Trump ever rode that escalator. They were in an apparently blissfully peaceful age where the President of the United States was just telling supporters to take guns to knife fights, get in their neighbors’ faces, and setting up a White House office to turn in your neighbors for “lying” about Obamacare. To paraphrase Donald Trump, peaceful my ass. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sent to me by a very dear friend and also a fellow memo reader.   Not all compromises are good when the compromise relates to and validates something amoral /evil.   That said, a lot of good can also be accomplished as a result of bad things happening because it exposes the lunacy of ideas/programs that have been deemed acceptable.   The first that comes to mind is the inflation of college and university education because the government guaranteed loans and this allowed government to intrude into higher education curricula etc. Carter ruined public education  when he established the Education Department and honoring a Rhode Island Senator (Sen. Pell) ruined higher education and allowed Universities and Colleges to run wild with administrative expansion and inflated faculty salaries. The Corona Virus is exposing these frauds as unsustainable  and is resulting in needed/belated changes. Virtually everything government touches it eventually ruins.  This is why less government, local government is best and more likely to benefit society and remain a positive, acceptable force.   The second disaster is the idea of proportionality and making sure of racial diversity.  Having a certain percentage of blacks hired is not going to necessarily help America compete if they are incompetent. Perhaps in some specialized field like sports and/or music it might work but probably not in  science, perhaps city government management. at this time. Certainly there will come a time, through education, talent disparity will even out but we have to get there through hard work and application of reasoning.  It takes two to "rumba" and until that happens affirmative promotions are racist and discriminatory. I know my views are controversial. So be it.  This is a very good article describing our constitutions relationship with slavery in the formation of our union. Not something I thought about before. https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/29/if-the-founders-didnt-compromise-on-slavery-the-constitution-and-united-states-wouldnt-exist/ And: Has it? You decide. Hello richard, It’s time to face facts. We are in the early stages of a civil war, whether we like it or not. Just look at the facts. Democrats are not going to concede when Joe Biden loses, per Hillary Clinton’s orders. There are now shooting casualties on both sides. We don’t agree on anything with the other side. They don’t agree with us and are demanding that we submit to them. Click here to see why it looks like a new civil war is inevitable at this point in America… and what you can do to prepare and to protect your family. ~ American Liberty Report ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Logic On My Side. Time May Not Be. Created Us But We Duped Ourselves. Dershowitz Ducks.Stay Away From Deserved Retribution.. Day Late, $ Short.

You gotta love this man and what he had to say and how he said it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7VMz4M1WWU
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The election has not been won by Trump but the tide has shifted, as I suggested it would in a previous memo and even before the debates.  The debates, in all probability, will simply validate this view.

It is amazing how grown men and women can become so zealous they lose sight of reality and throw away commonsense, if they ever had any.

The swing to the far, far left, the rioting, the destruction, the burning down of American cities as a consequence of inane governance by hypocrite Democrat Mayors has finally caught up with them and has over-ridden their hatred of Trump.

If the core of deplorables holds, blacks finally come to the realization they have been played like banjos and reject their being typed, by insulting mass media types, as participating in a Minstrel Show at the recent RNC Convention, Trump wins hands down.

As we get closer to election time,in the next two months, we might even witness an element of despair and panic growing among the ranks of Democrats as it dawns on them the tide has shifted washing their dreams of power into the Potomac.

The power of the mass media helped to define Trump but has escalated to such excess it has begun to boomerang. Most Americans are fair minded and recoil at unfair play.  This is how blacks were able to make progress and, though prejudice remains and will, as long as humans roam the land, facts are facts even when denied.

Education is the best road to betterment and when blacks realize this fact and are allowed the opportunity to seek it through choice their progress will escalate. Trump knows this and is trying his best to offer this option but education unions and Democrats are resisting and have been playing the race card.. It is finally dawning on blacks, their liberal friends, their tinsel Hollywood supporters and excessively paid sport's hucksters have used them as pawns and permitted themselves to be enslaved all over again.

Time will tell whether I am right.  Logic is on my side, time may not. Stay tuned and find out.
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The best thing anti- Antifa protesters can do is stand aside and allow the left fascists to drown by their own activities/hand.

Yes, my desire to see deserved retribution moves me in the direction of supporting vigilante action but I know better and I would hope Trump does as well. There is nothing the mass media would love better than to associate Trump with encouraging "White Supremacy" attacks on fascists from the left.

The Portland Clashes

Trump should tell his supporters to stay away from Antifa protests.

The Editorial Board

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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler speaks to the media at City Hall in Portland, Aug. 30.

Photo: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

The violent protests of the last three months in Portland, Ore., escalated on Saturday night into a right-left confrontation that resulted in one man shot dead in the streets. This is what happens when political leaders fail to perform the most basic responsibility of government to protect innocent lives and property.

The main failure here lies with Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Gov. Kate Brown, who have consistently indulged the rioters. Every night for more than 90 days, Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters have demonstrated in Portland. Many are peaceful, but a hard core have repeatedly attacked police and burned buildings.

When President Trump sent federal law enforcement agents to Portland this summer to protect federal buildings, the mayor and Governor blamed Mr. Trump for the violent clashes. But when federal agents stood down, the violence continued against Portland police and property. On Friday Mr. Wheeler issued an open letter rejecting Mr. Trump’s latest offer of federal help to restore order.

“We don’t need your politics of division and demagoguery. Portlanders are onto you. We have already seen your reckless disregard for human life in your bumbling response to the COVID pandemic. And we know you’ve reached the conclusion that images of violence or vandalism are your only ticket to reelection,” Mr. Wheeler wrote.

Yet his city is the one burning and where someone has now been killed. Mr. Wheeler, Gov. Brown and state lawmakers have hamstrung police by limiting anti-riot tactics. At a Sunday press conference the Portland police chief said his department lacked the resources to separate the fighting factions, but the feckless Mr. Wheeler offered little more than a plea against violence and rhetoric about reform to address racial injustice.

That hasn’t stopped Democrats from blaming Mr. Trump for the violence, as they did all day Sunday. Democrats spent their convention never mentioning the urban violence, but after the Kenosha riots and the GOP convention, this has become a political liability. So they’re pivoting to blame Mr. Trump and claim that “his America” is causing it. As if Trump supporters belong to Antifa and dominate U.S. cities.

As he often does, however, Mr. Trump took the bait and fired off tweets that CNN and Democrats spun as incitement. “The big backlash going on in Portland cannot be unexpected after 95 days of watching an incompetent Mayor admit that he has no idea what he is doing. The people of Portland won’t put up with no safety any longer. The Mayor is a FOOL. Bring in the National Guard!” he tweeted.

He’s right about the National Guard, but Mr. Trump would help Portland and his own political cause more if he called for calm on all sides. That includes his supporters who rolled into Portland for a counter-protest on Saturday. According to news reports, the man who was killed in the streets was wearing a hat for “Patriot Prayer,” the right-wing group that sometimes clashes with Antifa.

Mr. Trump should tell his supporters to stay away from Portland, Kenosha, Wis., and other cities where rioters reign. Democrats and Mr. Trump’s media opponents will take any opening they can to make alleged vigilantism the story rather than the failure of progressive Democratic governance.

The President can continue to offer local officials federal help if they want it. And he should offer sympathy for the people of Portland, Kenosha and other violent cities who have been let down by state and local leaders.

Vigilantism isn’t the cause of the current urban violence, but it could become one result of the failure to control violence. Americans have watched for weeks as rioters burned and looted businesses that people spent a lifetime building. Yet mayors like Ted Wheeler have let it happen. Inevitably, average citizens will move to defend themselves if elected officials won’t protect them. The proper place to do that is at the ballot box, however, not in the streets with guns

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They say God created us but we grew stupid and duped ourselves on  our own.  Dershowitz chooses not to be engulfed by the tide.

600-plus Jewish groups sign full-page ad supporting Black Lives Matter

More than 600 Jewish groups signed a full-page New York Times ad in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

“We are Jewish organizations and synagogues from across the racial and political spectrum; from different streams of Judaism; whose members trace their lineage from countries around the world,” states the group in the ad.

“We speak with one voice when we say, unequivocally: Black Lives Matter.”

The groups also state, “We support the black-led movement in this country that is calling for accountability and transparency from the government and law enforcement. We know that freedom and safety for any of us depends on the freedom and safety of all of us.”

“There are politicians and political movements in this country who build power by deliberately manufacturing fear to divide us against each other. All too often, anti-Semitism is at the center of these manufactured divisions.”

The groups make a connection between anti-black and anti-Jewish hatred.

“As Jews, we know how dangerous this is: when politicians target Jewish people and blame us for problems, it leads directly to violence against us,” they state. “When black movements are undermined, it leads to more violence against black people, including black Jews.”

“Anti-Semitism is part of the same machinery those politicians use to blame black and brown people, people who are immigrants, people who are Muslim and more,” they continue. “But whether they generate division and fear based on our religion, our skin color, or how long we’ve been here, their goal is to keep us from working together to win the things we all need to survive and thrive.”

Groups that signed the ad include the Anti-Defamation League, J Street, IfNotNow, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, HIAS, Hebrew College, Jewish Voice for Peace, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Zioness Movement, Young Democrats of America Jewish Caucus and NCSY (New York).

The Black Lives Matter movement has gained momentum with the continued shootings of African-Americans by police officers.

The post 600-plus Jewish groups sign full-page ad supporting Black Lives Matter appeared first on JNS.org.

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Alan Dershowitz

In 2016 I wrote an op-ed demanding that Black Lives Matter rescind the portion of its platform that describes Israel as an “apartheid state” involved in “genocide … against the Palestinian people.” I pointed out that the platform refers to no other country but Israel, despite the egregious records of many foreign countries with regard to police brutality. It is now four years later and these provisions of the platform remain intact. Defenders of Black Lives Matter argue that the inclusion of this critique against Israel in not antisemitic; it is merely anti-Zionist.

As a law professor for 50 years I frequently used “hypothetical cases” — the students called them “hypos” — to deepen the analysis of a problem. So please consider the following hypo: Imagine a world in which there was only one Black African nation — a nation built largely by previously enslaved Black men and women. Imagine further that this singular Black nation had a good record on the environment, on gay rights, on gender equality, on human rights, and on defending itself against attack from predominantly white nations. But as with all nations, the Black Nation was far from perfect. It had its flaws and imperfections.

Now imagine further that do-gooder organizations in America and around the world were to single out the Black nation for unique condemnation. For example, imagine that an environmental group or a gay rights group were to publish a platform in which it criticized the environmental and gay rights policies of its own nation, but then went out of its way to single out only the Black nation from among all the other polluters and homophobic countries of the world?

Would anyone hesitate to describe the singling out of the world’s only Black nation for unique condemnation as an act of bigotry, motivated by anti-Black racism? If that is the case, how is it different when Black Lives Matter singles out the only nation state of the Jewish people for unique and undeserved condemnation? Is not the application of a double standard based on religion as bad as a double standard based on race?

Criticizing Israel for its imperfections is not only fair, it is desirable. But only when it is based on a single standard of comparison with other nations of the world. Condemning the nation state of the Jewish people alone, in a world with far greater offenders, cannot be justified by any moral principle. It is antisemitic, pure and simple. And the Black Lives Matter platform is guilty of the serious sin and crime of antisemitism.

Unless Black Lives Matter explicitly rescinds its antisemitic platform, the organization should not receive the support of decent people. That would be a tragedy because Black Lives Matter does so much good. But throughout history organizations that did good also promoted racism, antisemitism, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. Their good deeds do not excuse or justify their bad ones.

Today more than ever we should recognize that there must be zero tolerance for any form of bigotry, including antisemitism, even if it is engaged in by organizations and people who otherwise do much good. The movement to tear down the statues of people like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Columbus and even Abraham Lincoln, because they also engaged in bigoted actions and promoted bigoted ideas, should teach us that we cannot condone bigotry by today’s do-gooders. Rescinding the bigoted portions of the Black Lives Matter platform is mandated by the morality of those who would cancel the contributions of past leaders because of their imperfections. Here we have an opportunity to act now, to prevent bigotry from spreading today.

I once again challenge the leaders of Black Lives Matter to rescind their antisemitic and false condemnation of the nation state of the Jewish people. If they refuse, then those of us who care deeply about Black lives, but also care deeply about ending the scourge of antisemitism, must support organizations other than Black Lives Matter that promote racial justice — without also promoting antisemitism.

Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School. Follow him on Twitter @AlanDersh and on Facebook @AlanMDershowitz.

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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Cultural Suicide Is Painless

The story of all Dark Ages is that when civilizations finally prefer suicide, they do it easily, and the remnants flock to the countryside to preserve what they can—allowing the cities go on with their ritual self-destruction.

By Victor Davis Hanson

In February, New York was the world’s most dynamic metropolis. By August, the city was more like the ruins of Ephesus. It is not all that hard to blow up a culture. You can do it in a summer if you haven’t much worry about others.

When you loot and burn a Target in an hour, it takes months to realize there are no more neighborhood Target-stocked groceries, toilet paper, and Advil to buy this winter.

You can in a night assault the police, spit at them, hope to infect them with the coronavirus, and even burn them alive. But when you call 911 in a few weeks after your car is vandalized, your wallet is stolen, and your spouse is violent, and no one comes, only then do you sense that you earlier were voting for a pre-civilized wilderness.

You can burn down a Burger King in half an hour. But it will take years to find anyone at Burger King, Inc., who would ever be dumb enough to rebuild atop the charred ruins—to prepare for the next round of arson in 2021 or 2023.

Today’s looter carrying off sneakers and smartphones in 10 years will be tomorrow’s urban activist, understandably but in vain demanding stores return to a charred no man’s land, to do their fair share, and to help restore the downtown, neighborhood, inner-city, or the “community.”

Old Liberal Ideas Are Being Destroyed

We are living in the most racially polarized climate since the 1960s. America’s past, present, and future are in the process of being recalibrated entirely through the lens of one’s skin color. Columbus is reduced to nothing more than another racist white Italian sailor of a half-millennium past. Grant might as well have fought for slavery in the mind of today’s campus ignoramus. Apparently, the Antifa thug thinks he could just as easily have written the Gettysburg Address or sculpted a statue of Frederick Douglass.

The old liberal ideas of assimilation, integration, and intermarriage are being destroyed by the Left under the specious doctrines of cultural appropriation, or “acting white” or “how we look is who we are.” 

A new fuzzy Jim Crow returns with racially segregated campus safe spaces and theme houses or the race-based reeducation and training sessions in the workplace—all predicated to stop racism! Somehow selecting strangers on the basis of their race to bully in a restaurant, or targeting old anonymous men and women to beat up in the street by their race, or singling out suburbanites by their race for racial taunts and profanity is redefined as reparatory justice or overdue payback—on the assumption that no one would dare say that the arson, looting, and rhetoric are descending into ever more hate-filled nihilism.

Our collective future of nationalized tribalism will become what always results when citizens identify by superficial appearance or shared religion. Just go to Lebanon, the Balkans, or Iraq to see what is in store first hand. 

Tribalism Rising

To survive, all groups will self-identify, at first quietly, but eventually unapologetically. Some will form alliances of self-preservation, others will war with each other. Tribal gangs, as they already do now in our streets of fire and looting, will assume they are exempt from consequences; and so will their antitheses of vigilantes who band together to guard their stores in the absence of a defunded police.

Liberal elite whites themselves are now uneasy, since the abstract doctrines they so nihilistically advocated, from defunding the police to recalibrating looting as “redistribution,” are now becoming reified and closer to home. They see that when BLM protestors jam a restaurant to demand fealty or lecture on “white privilege” or march into a suburb to wake up the commuter to apprise him of his immorality, the racialists will not qualify their agendas with “except for woke whites.”

When tribalism is distilled to its innate and terrifying essence, there are never exemptions for individuals: you are reduced to what you appear superficially as to strangers. The white felon is no different than the white Harvard president, the black shoplifter is the same as the black physicist. We are all condensed to a sort of collective nothingness, or rather a racial “allness.”

The Self-Immolation of Pro Sports

Professional sports, once an integral part of American life, appears to be nearly in ruins. Professional baseball, basketball, and football might have survived the virus, the lockdown, and the recession—and then maybe they might not have. After all, millions of the bored more quickly than expected got acculturated to the idea of soon not listening to a boring rant from LeBron James or the sad confessionals of Drew Brees.

But what the NBA and NFL, and perhaps MLB won’t survive is cultural suicide as players fragment into causes. The NBA existed on the premise that billionaires were willing to pay multimillionaires to lose billions as a prestige lark—as a franchise became a sort of a huge, showy Louis Vuitton bag. But even billionaires have limits. Snobbery and appearing cool do not always trump losing the equivalent of a Ferrari every hour or a Gulfstream each week.

The NBA, we are told, is a woke industry.

But it’s also the strangest, most nondiverse, right-wing, money-obsessed woke institution in America. More than three-quarters of the multimillionaire players are African-American. Over 90 percent of the billionaire team owners are white.

Yet the entire industry—players, coaches, owners, staff—lecture Americans ad nauseam about their supposed sins. The monotonous sermons have become transparent medieval redemptions—given the mortal sin that the NBA sold its very soul to a racist, genocidal, and totalitarian China—to recover billions abroad for the billions lost in viewership and attendance at home.

Nondiverse multimillionaires, working for even less diverse billionaires, finger-pointing at middle-class Americans on the evils of privilege, in the pay of the Chinese Communist Party, is not a way to win back fans.

Institutional Crack-Ups

Universities are in for hard times. The federal government eventually will get out of the $1.5 trillion student loan subsidy business, and force spendthrift colleges to accept their own self-created moral hazards. Charging $30,000-40,000 for tuition over Zoom is a bad business model in a recession. And the alphabet soups after the names of professors and deans will not make a bit of difference. 

Thousands of college-educated protesters and rioters are not especially good advertisements for the building of lifelong character on woke university campuses. Once undergraduate institutions decided to make students socially conscious rather than educated, and once their graduates seem to be neither, then who really finds their mentors essential?

Our major cities, emerging from lockdown, and on the edge of nightly violence, remind us of what Procopius, the Byzantine historian, saw of Rome in AD 538, once the cultural and political megalopolis of the world: a mostly deserted shell of weeds, deserted streets, collapsed stone, choked fountains, and fortified villas where lawlessness reigned and feuding tribes were what was left of a government that once had enshrined habeas corpus. 

No city gets a pass from history, not Athens, not Rome, not Alexandria—not Detroit, Baltimore, or Chicago.

After all, there is no rule that just because Bill Gates and Amazon headquartered in Seattle that its mayor, city council, and state governor will not abandon its signature downtown. What once made Portland great can be undone in a few weeks. 

Wall Street may run the world, but it certainly does not run the New York City government. Electronic capital really does still have human legs and when the proverbial suited investor thinks he will be infected, short of toilet paper, or assaulted on the street, he leaves, taking his laptop with him. Bill de Blasio is left to govern, like a horned and bearded Visigoth, over an increasing shell of former grandeur.

To venture into San Francisco is to return in a time machine to 1855, a boomtown based on silicon chips, not gold dust, but one likewise lawless, fetid, and safe only for those with private security guards. To the casual visitor, it appears a lunatic place now recalibrated for the homeless, the looter, the assaulter—and the very rich. Crimes like public defecation and drug use, or shattering the windows of a parked car window to steal its contents are not crimes unless the targets are the well-connected.

The story of all Dark Ages is that when civilizations finally prefer suicide, they do it easily, and the remnants flock to the countryside to preserve what they can—allowing the cities to go on with their ritual self-destruction. 

So it has begun to seem this endless summer.  

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Finally:
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2020/08/29/flashback-democrat-leaders-encouraging-violence-beginning-with-barack-obama-n863918
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++I am about a third way through "Citizens of London" and find it a very interesting read. At this point there are a few parallels between the book and today in that FDR was exceedingly reluctant to defend Britain for a variety of reasons.  FDR was unable to connect Hitler's threat to Britain as one we would ultimately face if  they were  defeated.
Trump understands the threat of Antifa not simply to some assorted cities but our entire nation.  These fascists, anarchists and chaos seekers intend to rid the world of America.
As for JoKe they were a day late and dollar short in addressing the issue at their "Oscar" type convention and are scrambling to catch up for political reasons. They remain clueless as are the Democrat Mayors who run the cities being wrecked.
https://patriotsignal.com/breaking-anitfa-issues-shock-threat-to-america-this-is-horrifying-video/++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++