Monthly Archives: May 2023

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Daily Broadside | Rule #13: Pick Target, Freeze It, Personalize It, and Polarize It.

Hey, you don’t suppose THIS is why Target has gone full-on trans-maniac, do you?

In the wake of the controversy surrounding Target’s debut of pro-transgender clothing lines aimed at children, it has since been revealed that one of the senior executives in the company’s marketing department also holds a position with a pro-transgender advocacy group.

According to Fox News, the vice president of brand marketing for Target, Carlos Saavedra, is also a treasurer for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN has pushed for schools across the country to enact policies that forbid parents from being made aware of their childrens’ gender identities at school, as well as pushing schools to include explicitly sexual books in their libraries.

GLSEN has written out its preferred policy for schools’ treatment of the parents of students, declaring that “[the local education agency] shall ensure that all personally identifiable and medical information relating to transgender and nonbinary students is kept confidential.”

“Staff or educators shall not disclose any information that may reveal a student’s gender identity to others, including parents or guardian,” the policy continues. “This disclosure must be discussed with the student, prior to any action.”

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“Target donates to GLSEN every year, with the most recent one being roughly $2.1 million.”

So who’s making policy in our state-run schools — education professionals or sexual deviants? The answer is clear: it’s a collaboration with sexual deviants who “prefer” that parents don’t know what’s going on with their children. So grade schools, middle schools and high schools conspire with a Leftist activist organization to cut off children from those directly responsible for their well being — the parents.

Listen, GLSEN, I don’t care what you “prefer.” You have no standing to say what is or isn’t right for my child. You certainly have no right to conspire to keep me from knowing what is happening to my child. Get your filthy hands away from them, you sick perverts.

My friends, if you spend money at Target on the latest thing that has your attention because it is priced just right and is convenient to get to, be aware that you are financially supporting a gay activist organization that seeks to supplant your parental rights. And if you don’t have kids in public schools, have a heart for others and stop shopping there.

As I’ve written many times on this blog, all you NEED is a little air, water, food and maybe some shelter and a change of clothes. You don’t NEED to spend your money at Target. You don’t NEED to get that latest shiny object at Target. If they are going to cater to the gay lobby, then let the gay lobby and their allies shop there.

Stop giving Target money.

Target has lost more than $10billion in market capitalization in the span of 10 days – as it continues to face backlash for Pride-themed merchandise.

Prior to the controversy – which stems over a LGBTQ-geared clothing campaign that touts ‘tuck-friendly’ bathing suits and pro-trans T-shirts for kids – Target shares were trading at $160.96, giving the retailer a market valuation of roughly $74.3billion.

By the time The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) closed Friday, the blue-chip stock was trading at $138.93 – marking a market valuation of 64,2billion, and loss of $10.1billion.

The sum, moreover, stands as the superstore’s lowest market value in an entire year – all achieved in a matter of days as customers swear off its products in response.

Of course, if you do that, you’ll be labeled a literal “terrorist.”

You’ll buy what we tell you to buy, dammit!

I don’t think the answer is to “boycott” Target. A “boycott” sounds temporary. The answer is to ABANDON Target. Forget they exist. Walk away. As Jesus said about the Pharisees, “Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit” (Matthew 15:14).

Here’s what I wrote almost a month ago when Tucker Carlson was fired and Bud Light was cratering.

If you want to know how to participate in the “culture wars”, ABANDON those companies that cater to the Left. Let them know by your ABSENCE that you won’t give them money to ruin your children and our society by promoting men who pretend to be women or that if they have such contempt for you that they’d rather cut the top-rated cable host in all of television than cater to your interests that you’ll go find your news somewhere else.

(See my recommendation for an alternative news source at the end of this post.)

It’s not easy to do this, but it’s not impossible, either. Unfortunately, there is an endless supply of companies that are adopting the woke attitude. The latest is a company that thousands of Christians defended when the work mob came for them in 2012.

“We have a problem,” wrote Joey Mannarino, a conservative host in highlighting Chick-fil-A’s prior announcement, on Twitter Tuesday morning. “Chick-Fil-A just hired a VP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. This is bad. Very bad. I don’t want to have to boycott. Are we going to have to boycott?”

He also wrote: “The Left is going crazy again over the Chick-fil-A boycott that conservatives are considering. They’re mad because we’ve FINALLY gotten effective at boycotts. Any company that is pushing the trans stuff on our kids or the DEI stuff, we are going to pick the worst offenders.”

“So Chick-fil-A has a diversity, equity and inclusion division,” added columnist Todd Starnes on Tuesday. “Well, that explains the fried cauliflower sandwiches and kale salad.”

Chick-Fil-A has apparently had a VP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion since 2020, but conservatives have just discovered the fact. I’m not sure I want to boycott the fast-food chain, especially since they’re not actively promoting the indoctrination of children or celebrating Pride Month by pushing rainbow chicken in our faces. But the fact that they have a DIE officer means the fox is in the hen house and it might be only a matter of time.

In the last book he wrote before he died, “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals” Saul Alinsky lays out 13 “rules” on how to successfully run a movement for change. The last of these rules is, “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.”

When we talk about boycotts, we’re talking about institutions, not people. It’s harder to bring down an institution because an institution is impervious to personal attacks. And conservatives, especially conservative Christians, are loathe to engage in the politics of personal destruction.

However, there’s an interesting angle here. Robby Starbuck makes the observation that what made the Bud Light boycott work is the personal side of associating with the brand.

“Men like us made it socially unacceptable for other men to be seen with a Bud Light.” He says that women are doing the same thing with Target right now. Perhaps we’ve stumbled on a way to apply Alinsky’s rule to the Left.

Regardless, don’t allow these companies to influence you with their cheap prices and even cheaper products. It’s a way to take a stand against the Marxists who’ve infiltrated every institution at almost every level across the country.

It will be a long term effort.

  • I subscribe to and highly recommend The Epoch Times as an alternative news source to Fox News, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, or any other online or cable outlet.
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Daily Broadside | The UniParty Strikes Again — and Conservatives Lose Again

I have zero confidence in the Republican party to represent conservative Americans or to do what is right for the country. I no longer expect them to put up a fight against bigger government interests nor to ignore the howls from the Left should they try reversing our careening headlong mad dash into economic disaster.

They’re the opposition failure party.

After getting our hopes up, just a little, with the fight of Kevin McCarthy’s election as House Leader, we now see just what the man is made of and it’s just as we feared. He’s a lot of talk and little action to back up what matters. Remember this?

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), speaking in Pittsburgh on Friday to promote the House Republicans’ legislative agenda, said a GOP-controlled House would introduce legislation that would block the IRS from receiving funds from the Inflation Reduction Act that President Joe Biden signed into law in August.

“On that very first day that we’re sworn in, you’ll see that it all changes. Because on our very first bill, we’re going to repeal 87,000 IRS agents. Our job is to work for you, not go after you,” McCarthy said.

McCarthy’s election pledge marks the latest in a series of commitments made by congressional Republicans to eliminate the multi-year IRS funding that passed by the slimmest of margins.

They couldn’t get the bill passed because the Senate refused it.

But when again presented with an opportunity to back Democrats into a corner and demand that the IRS funding get cut, here’s what we got.

CUTS TO IRS FUNDING BUT 87,000 NEW AGENTS WILL STAY 

Republicans are not happy with the spending bill passed last year to massively increase the money for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – and mainly the part allocated for the hiring of tens of thousands of more agents to audit Americans’ taxes and crack down on tax fraud.

In the debt ceiling deal, McCarthy targeted money that the IRS was allotted by cutting $21 billion of the $80 billion.

Many members of McCarthy’s party, however, say that the bill doesn’t go far enough and had urged all funding to the IRS be rescinded, especially the provision to hire more agents.

Sen. Cruz complained that the package will still allow for the hiring of 87,000 more agents.

‘There’s not ‘one thing’ for Dems,’ Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted, claiming Speaker McCarthy was ‘right’ to say so. ‘There are $4 trillion things—a blank check—for Democrats.’

‘Plus 87,000 things: new IRS agents to harass Americans,’ he added. ‘All in exchange for eliminating virtually ALL of the House’s spending cuts.’

Instead of playing hard ball like the Left does, and wielding the levers of power to squeeze concessions out of Democrats, McCarthy and other Republican squishes caved on almost everything.

The cornerstone of the deal includes a two-year suspension of the debt limit until January 2025 after the next presidential election. 

Republicans are taking issue with the $4 trillion ceiling increase, saying there could be virtually unlimited spending for the last two years of Biden’s first term.

The GOP had backed a deal in which the debt ceiling was only raised by $1.5 trillion – which was not agreed to.

Not agreed to … by the Democrats. We went from a $1.5 TRILLION deal to a $4 TRILLION “””deal.””” Which means that McCarthy caved to Democrats. Why? How? What do Democrats hold over the GOP?

The Leviathan grows and consumes more of our resources every time there’s a budget “””deal””” and pushes us ever closer to a global catastrophe. Our current debt is more than $31 TRILLION. The Democrats are hell bent on bankrupting us and the GOP goes right along with them.

The agreement also limits spending by keeping all non-defense appropriations roughly flat in Fiscal Year 2024 and increasing it by only one percent the following year – a point that conservatives are taking issue with since they urged a freeze on all federal spending for 10 years.

Congress is also required under the new bill to approve 12 annual spending bills or face a snapback to spending limits from the previous year.

The White House predicts the plan would reduce government spending by $1 trillion, but Republicans are calling them ‘fake’ spending cuts.

‘Fake conservatives agree to fake spending cuts,’ Sen. Paul tweeted. ‘Deal will increase mandatory spending ~5%, increase military spending ~3%, and maintain current non-military discretionary spending at post-COVID levels.’

‘No real cuts to see here.’

Rep. Norman of South Carolina called the deal ‘insanity’ said he won’t ‘vote to bankrupt our country.’

Here’s how Miranda Devine put it.

Kevin McCarthy trumpeted a debt-ceiling deal Sunday, but increasing debt another $4 trillion with minimal concessions is nothing to boast about. 

To be fair, the House speaker has a razor slim majority and Republicans don’t control the Senate, where Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his sidekick Lindsey Graham have announced that the only thing they care about is Ukraine. 

But McCarthy’s one dealbreaker should have been his promise to defund President Biden’s massive $80 billion to turbocharge an already weaponized IRS. 

This was the totemic centerpiece of his pitch to become speaker.

It was the most memorable promise of the Republicans’ midterm campaign to win back the House. 

It struck a chord with voters, wary of funding a new “army” of armed IRS agents to harass middle-class families and small business owners and abuse their powers to target political dissidents, Soviet-style. 

“Our very first bill will repeal the funding for 87,000 new IRS agents,” McCarthy vowed. 

“You see, we believe government should be to help you, not go after you.”

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In the debt-ceiling deal outlined Sunday and due to be inked later this week, McCarthy has allowed the lion’s share of that extra IRS funding to remain unmolested: preserving $78.1 billion of the $80 billion. 

As rebel GOP Rep Dan Bishop put it: “So there will be 85,260 more IRS agents rather than 87,000 to eat you alive. Big win.”

Overpromising and underdelivering is what turns voters off the GOP. 

We effectively have only one ruling party in government: Democrats and their side-kick, Democrat Light, aka Republicans. True, there are some actual conservatives in the party, but not enough to pull the majority to the right. Here’s what they said.

When will conservatives wake up and realize we have no effective representation in Congress?

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Daily Broadside | Memorial Day 2023

The older I get, the deeper my appreciation for the hundreds of thousands of men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for me and millions of others who call the United States home. Every number in the video below represents one soldier, airman, seaman or marine who didn’t make it back from the conflict in which they fought. They died that I might live in freedom without fear.

The numbers are staggering.

Jesus also made the ultimate sacrifice for me and for millions of others; He died that I might live in spiritual freedom without fear of God’s wrath.

To those in the military who fought for my freedom to worship my Savior and to live my life in relative peace, I salute you.

Thank you.

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Daily Broadside | The Left is Burning It All Down

I often find myself mourning the death of historical, traditional America. I sit in my middle class home in my middle class neighborhood, enjoying the fruit of my labor, watching my children take their next steps into adulthood, thanking God for His grace and goodness, and it seems so … normal. It’s more or less what I grew up with and it’s what I want to leave to the generations who come after me.

Yet pull out to 50,000 feet and it’s anything but “normal.” Victor Davis Hanson, or VDH as he’s known, put his finger on it in his most recent column: “The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying.”

He goes on to catalogue the catastrophe that the Left has wrought on the country, starting with the damning Durham report.

The summary confirms that our premier investigatory and intelligence agencies interfered in the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. 

Directors and high-ranking FBI officials lied under oath. They misled Congress. They altered court documents and deceived federal judges. 

The FBI hired a foreign national to gather dirt on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign—while he was being paid by the rival Hillary Clinton campaign.

The FBI contracted Twitter to suppress news stories. It kept the Hunter Biden laptop under wraps, even as former intelligence officials flat out lied it was likely “Russian disinformation.” That was a blatant effort to aid the 2020 Biden campaign.

Note that not one of the offenders have been called to account for their malfeasance.

Not. One.

This is not only the most egregious political crime in the history of the United States — yes, much greater than Watergate — it’s an outrageous betrayal of the social contract binding our country together. It’s a massive corruption of our legal and political system, which effectively demolishes the Constitutional order and makes us, what?

It’s not the United States of America.

VDH goes on to list the Black Grievance Grift that’s splitting us apart while the lead agitators enrich themselves; the political persecution of a young Marine who restrained a man threatening passengers on the subway — a hero in any other age now mortified as a vigilante with the perpetrator lauded as a victim of racism and oppression; and the degradation of athletic competition as biological males routinely beat female competitors in women’s sports. And then:

Under pressure from the LGBTQ activists, the Los Angeles Dodgers reinvited the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” to celebrate Pride night at Dodger Stadium. 

Catholics and Christians had objected to the invitation because the group’s notoriety hinges on its sexualized and often pornographic mockery of Catholic ritual, the Holy Trinity, and Christian faith. 

The supposedly courageous group would never dare extend its street-theater blasphemy to other religious groups such as Muslims or Hindus. 

In a piece specifically about the Dodgers’ decision, Micah Meadowcroft writes that Christians, in particular, are no longer operating from a position of cultural strength, but weakness.

As goes baseball, so goes the country. America’s pastime may be much diminished from its golden age, but in a culturally fractured moment nostalgia makes it all the more important as a symbol. So it is worth noting, suggesting something of catacombs, when the Los Angeles Dodgers would rather offend Christians and sitting U.S. senators than risk the wrath of the homosexual lobby.

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A decade, then, at least for one professional baseball organization, is how long it takes for pro-gay to become anti-Christian. This is baseball, recall; the team needn’t really have ever taken a public position on the sexual revolution, let alone prostrate, but here it is, and it says much more about American culture as a whole than about the Dodgers in particular. There was a culture war, once, and you lost.

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But think for a moment about what has happened here. A large-market baseball team—an avatar of American culture and big business—was pressured by religious groups and a sitting U.S. senator to maintain a recently expected standard of public decorum. They did not protest a Pride Night and the Dodgers’ celebration of sexual expressivism, only an obviously anti-Catholic and even anti-Christian demonstration. This was a request for toleration from a position of weakness. And now there is no hesitation to trample. 

I encourage you to read the whole thing (both VDH and Meadowcroft). They don’t even touch on the open border with hundreds of thousands of foreigners being allowed to violate our sovereignty, the ramifications of which we can’t even imagine; the coordinated lawsuits against parents and schools for not allowing their children to be sexualized; the profound revelation that elections in swing states are in fact rigged (and there’s no strategy adopted for fixing it); the lawlessness allowed to go unchallenged in Democrat-led cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Baltimore, Austin, Portland and any number of hellholes in between; and much more evidence that this is not your father’s America.

David Harsanyi has thoughts.

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ apology letter re-inviting the anti-Catholic Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night reads like the unwinding of a grueling struggle session. And it ends in a predictably pitiful way, with the reactionaries promising “to better educate” themselves in the future.

In contemporary parlance, to “educate” oneself means allowing intellectually and morally stunted clowns — literally, in this case — to bully you. Because LGBT activists, like BLM activists, never need to be “educated” about anything. They have achieved enlightenment.

No, it’s the slack-jawed yokels who cling to thousands of years of intellectual and theological tradition who need lessons from the geniuses who spend Easter Sunday dressed in Virgin Mary drag, passing out condoms on a 13-stop bar crawl mocking the Stations of the Cross. The Dodgers are merely celebrating diversity by sponsoring a group that simulates sex scenes on crucifixes. Why are you fanatics starting another culture war?

Enjoy the long weekend.

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Daily Broadside | It’s Not Easy to Avoid Woke Companies; They’re Everywhere Now

A couple of quick hits before the main topic. In 1985 I saw Tina Turner perform at Wembley Arena in London. She died yesterday at the age of 83. Never a big fan of her music but she was a rock icon from my youth and it was a moment.

Ron DeSantis (pronounced, by Ron himself, as “DeeSantis”, not “DehSantis”) has officially joined the presidential race. As I wrote yesterday, I’d vote for him or Trump if either were the Republican nominee. Anyone other than Resident Flounder, or whomever the Democrats shove to the front.

Meanwhile, after the Bud Light fiasco, which is still ongoing, it’s come to light in rapid succession that a number of other brands across other categories are also diving deeply into LBGTQ+ promotions. Nike, Coca-Cola, Anheuser-Busch, Mattel, Delta, Ben & Jerry’s, Converse, Coors, Google, NFL, Pepsi, Patagonia, Gillette, and now, Target — and many, many others — have embraced the LBGTQ+ agenda as proud supporters.

The latest, Target, is facing strong backlash for selling women’s bathing suits with “tuckable” space for men who pretend to be women.

Target has recently come under fire for its efforts to pander to the transgender community. Target stores nationwide recently unveiled their “Pride collection,” featuring a range of merchandise and clothing with trans-friendly slogans and books pushing radical leftist gender ideology. What makes this particularly troubling is the clothes, merchandise, and books are not exclusively aimed at adults but also young children and babies. They aren’t tucked away in a hard to find section either; these displays are prominently showcased at the front of Target stores.

Target, you may know already, has been pandering to the LGBTQ community for years. However, in the aftermath of the Bud Light controversy, Target started receiving enough backlash that the company held an emergency meeting last week. Several store locations, primarily in rural southern areas, have now been instructed to relocate and downsize their Pride sections—specifically to avoid a “Bud Light situation.”

“I think given the current situation with Bud Light, the company is terrified of a Bud Light situation,” a Target insider told Fox News Digital.

They should be terrified. But the truth is that a lot of these companies think this is a good business stratetgy, including Target’s CEO, Brian Cornell.

“I think those are just good business decisions, and it’s the right thing for society, and it’s the great thing for our brand,” Cornell said. “The things we’ve done from a DE&I [diversity, equity, and inclusion] standpoint, it’s adding value.”

He added, “It’s helping us drive sales, it’s building greater engagement with both our teams and our guests, and those are just the right things for our business today.”

That it’s a “great thing for [the] brand” is debatable and I can tell you that it is not “the right thing for society.” I’m with John Hinderaker over at Power Line who is also puzzled by the enthusastic embrace of radical sexual politics by our corporate class.

But “trans” clothing is not exactly the path to mass market success. How many women’s swimsuits with extra crotch room is Target going to sell? Six or seven?

More recently, leaks from Target indicate that the company is scrambling to contain the tsunami of disgust that its “Pride” campaign has generated.

More broadly, Hinderaker asks the question I’ve been asking: Why?

So, what is going on here? I don’t get it. We obviously are not dealing with traditional assumptions about corporate behavior. These companies are not appealing to a substantial customer segment. They evidently don’t mind incurring the puzzlement, if not wrath, of much of their customer base. They can’t possibly be profit maximizing, as economists tell us they do, and ought to do.

Some say that companies are being dominated by left-leaning HR and marketing departments. Maybe so. But HR departments don’t make decisions of this sort, and the normal assumption is that marketing departments are trying to market. That is, to maximize sales. These days, that doesn’t seem to be the case. And the worst offenders are often CEOs who have been hired as PR face men, not nuts and bolts managers.

He doesn’t get it, and neither do I. But something I recently read (and I can’t find it) said that big business needs loans, and loans come from banks. Banks are owned by larger entities that are big enough to withhold loans from companies that are not sufficiently “woke.” I have no idea if it’s true, but it sounds plausible.

So the suggestion is that companies prove their woke cred so they will be eligible for bank loans when they need them. Of course, many companies don’t need bank loans and are self-sufficient, which leaves the question, again: why?

With the number of big brand names embracing radical leftist gender nonsense, it may be difficult to boycott them all. Difficult, but not impossible. I’ve said it before, but we live with such abundance that we’ve been lulled into thinking that many of our “wants” are somehow “needs.” The truth is that we have very few non-negotiable needs. All we need is a little food, water, air and shelter. Maybe some clothes and transportation. Everything else is discretionary.

But living in a consumer culture, we are in the habit of mistaking wants for needs. Once we get that straightened out, it should be a no brainer to boycott Target and its merchandise. It shouldn’t be hard to ignore Bud Light. You really can do without a daily Starbucks.

Am I suggesting that you boycott them all? Yes — but I’m a realist. It will be hard to avoid conducting monetary transactions with companies that support woke ideologies in some form or another. Perhaps you simply be selective when you have the opportunity. I no longer buy Gillette razors, even though I had no complaints about the blades themselves (other than the cost!). But when they led with their “Toxic Masculinity” ad in 2019, thousands of men stopped buying their blades and it hurt their bottom line.

As Hinderaker says, leaving the gigantic companies presents an opportunity to support the little guys.

It is noteworthy that it is big business–Budweiser, Target, Nike and so on–that goes off the deep end. It is highly unlikely that the small businesses in your town are jumping on the “trans” bandwagon, or other leftist fads. They still care about their customers, and their owners are not so rich as to scorn profit. 

Once you’ve boycotted the big guys, shop local.

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Daily Broadside | DeSantis To Declare for Republican Presidential Race in 2024

Sorry for the radio silence over the last few days. I traveled this past weekend and didn’t have anyone to cover for me. Anybody got a spare $300k so I can take the next three years to write and build on current readership? Hit the tip jar and email me at info@daveolsson.com.

Okay, barring a miraculous $300k, we’ll just have to keep plodding along with what we can do in our off hours, right? Today you should be looking for Ron DeSantis to announce his 2024 candidacy for president of the United States during a discussion with Elon Musk on Twitter.

I’m intrigued with DeSantis. Unlike Trump, he seems to have a genuine (Catholic) Christian faith. He recently shared the stage with Franklin Graham at the International Christian Media Convention hosted by the National Religious Broadcasters in Orlando, Florida, where he said, “Make no mistake, weaponized government is one faction of society turning the reins of power against those people they don’t like. And the people that are in power now do not like people of faith.”

He’s racking up victories in Florida, including these from this report:

When Walt Disney Co (DIS.N), one of Florida’s biggest employers, opposed the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law that limited discussion of LGBTQ issues in schools, DeSantis moved to strip the company of its self-governing status.

Disney has since filed a federal lawsuit against the governor, accusing him of weaponizing state government to retaliate against the company.

When an elected Democratic state attorney said he would not prosecute anyone for defying DeSantis-backed limits on abortion, DeSantis removed him from his position.

He has made crusading against what Republicans call “woke” education policies a centerpiece of his politics while supporting conservative candidates for local school boards.

He backed a legislative measure that prohibits the teaching of “Critical Race Theory” – an academic doctrine that views U.S. history through the lens of oppression – in state public schools despite little evidence it was being taught.

Republican lawmakers in Florida handed DeSantis a bevy of conservative victories in its recent session: They expanded the state’s school voucher program, prohibited the use of public money in sustainable investing, scrapped diversity programs at public universities, allowed for permitless carry of concealed weapons and, perhaps most notably, banned almost all abortions in the state.

DeSantis declared that, “At the end of the day, we’re not going to let this state be overrun by woke ideology,” he said. “We will fight the woke in the businesses, we will fight the woke in government agencies, we will fight the woke in our schools. We will never, ever surrender to the woke agenda. Florida is the state where woke goes to die.”

Perhaps as president DeSantis could make the whole country a giant chemo bath for woke ideology.

He also seems completely unfazed by Trump’s attacks on him, using the nickname “Ron DeSanctimonious.” In fact, when asked about Trump facing arrest over payments to Stormy Daniels, DeSantis said, “Look, I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair,” a subtle shot at Trump’s alleged crime now being prosecuted by the Soros-bought prosecutor Alvin Bragg. So DeSantis can handle himself just fine when it comes to Trump.

There are some broader questions about how in debt DeSantis is with the GOPe — the establishment Republicans. Is he an independent thinker, or is he beholden to the spineless elites who merely want to hold on to the power and money they control? Rght now I don’t see it, but time will tell.

I welcome him to the race, even though our elections are now shot through with “fortifying” them — in favor of the Democrats. DeSantis is a refreshing choice in as we begin to size up the 2024 election. He seems to have Trump-sized brass without all the self-inflicted wounds that Trump’s lack of verbal discipline costs him.

Truth be told — right now, if either Trump or DeSantis were the Republican nominee, I’d vote for either one of them. Anybody but Brandon or whoever they stick in front of us.

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Daily Broadside | Islamic Jihad Is Still A Thing and We Should Pay Attention

A story that dropped off the radar several years ago is back in the news.

NEW YORK — An Islamic extremist was given 10 life sentences and another 260 years in prison on Wednesday for killing eight people with a truck on a bike path in Manhattan and severely injuring 18 others.

“The conduct in this case is among the worst if not the worst I’ve ever seen,” said U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick. He cited the unrepentant nature of Sayfullo Saipov, who, given a chance to speak, said the tears of victims and family members in the courtroom were small compared to the blood and tears that those in the Islamic faith have suffered.

Saipov’s sentence came after a jury in March rejected the death penalty for the Uzbekistan citizen and onetime New Jersey resident, leaving him with a mandatory life prison sentence for his Oct. 31, 2017 slaughter of tourists and New Yorkers.

Other countries are definitely sending us their best! “A former long-haul truck driver, Saipov moved legally to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in 2010 and lived in Ohio and Florida before joining his family in Paterson, New Jersey.”

Saipov’s first name, “Sayfullo” means “sword of Allah.” But don’t you dare notice that, you Islamophobe!

The jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict on the death penalty, so the prosecutors argued for the strongest possible sentence, which the judge accomodated. We the People will now support this mass murderer for the rest of his life while he spreads the Islamic faith to his fellow prisoners. Fortunately, he’ll be incarcerated in Colorado’s Supermax facility, the most secure federal prison in the U.S., so he won’t be able to do (much) more damage to our society.

I’ve warned for a long time (at least a decade) that Islamic extremism is a very real threat to our country. There have been several jihadi attacks within the United States since 9/11, our politicians have imported tens of thousands of Muslims, and our FBI, DOJ and local law enforcement refuse to acknowledge the threat that Islamic extremists pose to our society.

It is true that there have been relatively few jihadist attacks in recent years and, in fact, the number of general terror attacks in the U.S. have decreased significantly since 1970 with a slight uptick in the last couple of years.

However, there have been enough that we should be paying attention, especially with regard to Islamist terrorism. Note that not all the killings I list below are mass murders. Some of them are “honor killings” that have shown up in America in the last fifteen years.

January 1, 2008: Yaser Said murders his two daughters, 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said. He shot them to death because, as Muslims, they brought disgrace on his family because of their western lifestyle that included dating non-Muslim boys. The murders are considered an honor killing.

July 6, 2008: Pakistani-born Chaudhry Rashid admitted to strangling his daughter, Sandeela Kanwal, because she “disgraced his family by seeking a divorce from an arranged marriage to her cousin.” The murder is seen as an “honor killing.”

February 12, 2009: Pakistani-American Muzzammil Hassan brutally stabbed and beheaded his wife, Aasiya Hassan, in Buffalo, NY. because six days earlier she had filed for divorce. In a bit of irony, Mr. Hassan “founded Bridge TV in 2004. The American-Islamic station was designed to combat the negative stereotype of Muslims post-9/11. His wife was its general manager.” The murder is considered an honor killing.

November 2, 2009: Faleh Almaleki runs down his daughter, Noor Almaleki, as she walked across a suburban parking lot to a Mexican restaurant with a friend. “Local police characterized the incident as an attempted ‘honor killing’ — the murder of a woman for behaving in a way that ‘shames’ her family.” The Almalekis immigrated in the mid-1990s from Basra, Iraq to Phoenix, Arizona. The murder is seen as an honor killing.

November 5, 2009: Maj. Nidal Hasan killed 13 members of the military at Fort Hood. “Attorneys for the victims … said that the alleged shooter’s admission this week that he gunned down his countrymen to defend the Taliban proves that the assault was a terrorist attack and not, as the government has implied, ‘workplace violence.'”

December 25, 2009: The “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab—who was trained and directed by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula—smuggled a bomb aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam. The device failed to go off, “but AbdulMutallab became enveloped in a fireball that spread to the wall and carpeting of the plane.” He later admitted that “‘I carried with me an explosive device to avenge the killing of innocent Muslims,’ adding that the failed plot was in retaliation for ‘U.S. tyranny and oppression of Muslims.'”

April 14, 2010: Tawana Thompson Larry is killed, along with three others, by her husband. “The suspected gunman told police Allah had told him to kill family members. The man’s sister told reporters at a vigil outside the home that her brother had recently been reading passages from an Islamic text that led him to believe he should kill someone.”

May 1, 2010: Faisal Shahzad managed to place a car bomb in Times Square undetected after training with the Pakistani Taliban. The device did not detonate properly. When he was sentenced to life in federal prison without parole, he said he would “sacrifice a thousand lives for Allah.” Reminded by the judge that he’d sworn an oath of allegiance to the US when he became a citizen, Shahzad replied, “I did swear but I did not mean it.”

April 15, 2013: Two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade, targeted the Boston marathon with pressure cooker bombs, killing three and injuring more than 260 people. In one report, “a picture has emerged of the older one as someone embittered toward the U.S., increasingly vehement in his Muslim faith and influential over his younger brother.”

September 25, 2014: Alton Nolen “inflicted a brutal, ISIS-style punishment on colleagues he tried to convert to Islam — cutting one woman’s head off with a 10-inch fillet knife. Jurors also convicted Nolen of assault and battery with a deadly weapon for attempting to behead a second co-worker at the Vaughan Foods plant in Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City. Nolen’s attorneys say he’s mentally ill and believed he was doing the right thing because of his delusional misinterpretations of the Quran.”

December 2, 2015: Tashfeen Malik and her husband, Syed Farook, massacred 14 people at an office Christmas party in San Bernardino, California. “Farook was born to Pakistani parents in Chicago on June 14, 1987, but the family moved to Southern California when he was a child, and he attended La Sierra High School in Riverside, where he joined a campus club for Muslims.” This report says Farook and Malik “were clad in tactical gear and armed with handguns and two assault rifles purchased by his childhood friend, Marquez. The couple sprayed the room with as many as 75 rounds before fleeing.”

June 12, 2016: Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. He called 911 during the attack to pledge allegiance to ISIS and mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers, according to a U.S. official. Mateen’s parents came from Afghanistan; Mateen was born in New York City.

October 31, 2017: Sayfullo Saipov runs down pedestrians on a New York City bike path using a rented Home Depot truck, killing eight. Prosecutors said he had two cell phones with 90 videos of propaganda about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and 3,800 images related to the terrorist group.

December 6, 2019: Mohammed Alshamrani, a 21-year-old second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force and a student naval flight officer, opened fire in a Pensacola, Florida naval station classroom building, killing three sailors. Alshamrani was killed after two deputies exchanged gunfire with him. The murders are considered an act of terrorism.

March 22, 2021: Ahmad Al-Issa, a Syrian Muslim immigrant from Raqqa, Syria, killed ten Americans by shooting them to death inside a supermarket. He “spent much of his time in America accusing his classmates and everyone around him of being ‘Islamophobes’. He repeatedly got into furious confrontations with the Americans whom he claimed were disrespecting his Islamic religion.” In the latest news about this case, the courts will hear arguments this month about Al-Issa’s mental fitness to stand trial.

April 2, 2021: Noah Green described himself as a “Follower of Farrakhan.” Green hit two police officers with his car and rammed a security barrier, then was shot and killed by law enforcement after he exited the vehicle and drew his knife. “However, the path has been thwarted, as Allah has chosen me for other things,” Green wrote on his Facebook page.

December 31, 2022: Trevor Bickford is charged with federal crimes in connection with his efforts to wage jihad by killing U.S. Government officials and his knife attack on three NYPD officers in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. “I wanted to kill an officer in uniform,” Bickford allegedly told police, according to the criminal complaint. “I saw the officer and waited until he was alone. I said ‘Allahu Akbar.’ I walked up and hit him over the head with a kukri. I charged another officer but dropped the knife and I tried to get the police officer’s gun but couldn’t.”

These are some of the attacks that we know about since 9/11.

Apart from attacks like these, we should also be watching for other signs of Islamic separation from American culture. Democrat congresswoman Rashid Tlaib swore her oath of office on the Koran, as did Ilhan Omar. Tlaib’s mother came from the West Bank, Omar came with her family from Somalia. We should also be watching certain cities, such as Hamtramck and Dearborn, MI, where Muslims make up more than 40 percent of the two cities in the Metro Detroit region. We should also pay attention to Minneapolis, home to 70-80,000 Muslims, which just became the first major city to “allow broadcasts of the Muslim call to prayer at all hours, becoming the first major U.S. city to allow the announcement or ‘adhan’ to be heard over speakers five times a day, year-round.”

Not all Muslims are terrorists, of course; in fact, the vast majority seem to practice their religion in peaceable ways. But we should be wary, especially with the invasion through our southern “border.” Every day that our border stays open, it’s possible more migrants enter from terror states. No one knows who is coming in, but every now and then, an extremist pops off and people die.

Seems to me we would want to prevent that.

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Daily Broadside | The Durham Report Tells Us Little We Don’t Know And Doesn’t Punish Anyone for Their Crimes

I mentioned the John Durham report in yesterday’s post and wanted to spend a little more time on it. When former Attorney General William Barr appointed Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney Durham in May 2019 to investigate the origins of the FBI’s Russia! Russia! Russia! investigation, Durham was a veteran federal prosecutor with a good, nonpartisan reputation. Durham’s work turned into a criminal probe, with Barr eventually appointing Durham as Special Counsel on October 19, 2020, to protect his work no matter the outcome of that year’s presidential election.

Most importantly, if Durham at any time believed “it is necessary and appropriate,” he was authorized to prosecute federal crimes arising from his investigation. That’s what most conservatives hung their hats on — that Hillary Clinton and Christopher Wray and any other actors in the hoax would be punished. But, as you know, the Deep State and the Uniparty are all smoke and mirrors when it comes to actually holding someone accountable, even if it’s a conspiracy to take down a duly elected president.

Special counsel John Durham’s highly awaited report was released on Monday, in which he harshly criticized the FBI for its handling of an investigation into former President Donald Trump and noted that former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Barack Obama and other top national security officials regarding intelligence about a plan to “stir up a scandal” targeting Trump and Russia.

The 300-page report, which faulted the FBI for opening its probe into allegations that Trump colluded with Russia, at one point cited handwritten notes from Brennan, who had briefed Obama about the “alleged approval” by then-candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign in July 2016 of a proposal to “vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”

Durham specifically made mention of “highly significant intelligence” that the FBI “received from a trusted foreign source pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server.” During the 2016 contest, Trump and Republicans had criticized Clinton, a former secretary of state, for her use of a private server that they said was insecure and should have brought about felony charges against her.

Brennan briefed not only Obama, but also then-Vice President Joe Biden, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director James Comey, according to Durham’s report. It suggested that top officials in the Obama administration were aware of the plan to denigrate Trump and paint him as a Russian asset, which the former president has long described as a witch hunt meant to harm him politically.

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In Durham’s report, no charges have been recommended for any of the aforementioned individuals. Durham, a former U.S. attorney in Connecticut, also did not recommend any FBI policy changes.

But he did sharply criticize the bureau for departing from previous norms in how it opened the investigation into Trump, dubbed Crossfire Hurricane. The FBI, the report said, failed to take several necessary steps before that investigation was launched.

Ah, yes … sharp criticism. That’s the ticket! Our government agents are all about issuing strongly worded letters denouncing bad behavior, but nobody ever goes to jail for their crimes. Nobody really loses their job. Of course, Republicans are vowing that NOW they’re going to provide the necessary “oversight” and “accountability” so that “this never happens again”!

“Those responsible need to be held accountable, not just for meddling in the presidential election but also for the damage done to our institutions.” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).

“To ensure Americans can maintain faith in our legal system, those responsible for this miscarriage of justice must be held accountable.” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas).

“While I’m glad this report debunks yet another false narrative pushed by the Left and liberal media, the House will conduct vigorous oversight and do everything within its power to ensure this never happens again.” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.).

Isn’t that precious?

I’ll tell you what all that posturing means: nothing. Nothing will change.

At least Vivek Ramaswamy understands what it means.

Ramaswamy responded to the report telling The Epoch Times, “Enough is enough. Root out the corruption & shut down the FBI.”

“This is achievable,” the Republican presidential candidate went on. “At the local level, we have police & prosecutors. At the federal level, we have U.S. marshals & the DOJ. An intermediary bureaucracy is rife with risk for politicized corruption & it’s been happening since J. Edgar Hoover in the 60s.”

I’m all for abolishing the FBI and any number of other three-letter agencies that shield unelected bureaucrats from accountability while regulating every aspect of our lives. The FBI has become a corrupt, partisan, armed agent of the Left.

But the GOP and GOPe don’t have the spine to do it. That’s why we’ll only hear strongly worded denouncements.

Jeff Carlson’s op-ed speaks for me:

But it’s what Durham doesn’t cover that’s far and away most notable. Durham doesn’t appear to even touch on notable high-level events such as the White House meeting on Jan. 5, 2017, that included then-President Barack Obama–a meeting that appears to directly implicate both Obama and now-President Joe Biden in the coming attacks on Trump’s administration.

There’s also no effort to address the NSA’s collection of data and the unmasking of members within the Trump campaign that were highlighted by then-Rep. Devin Nunes in early 2017. While we know that some of the actions taken by the FBI and other three-letter agencies required high-level decision-making, Durham not only fails to address the actions of these high-level individuals, he didn’t even identify them.

Durham didn’t even address the supposed hack of the Democratic National Committee servers. This lack of information is made all the more frustrating by the fact that Durham’s team conducted “more than 480 interviews” and reviewed “more than six million pages of documents.” It seems clear that a big part of the story remains untold.

There’s also a generalized absence of information on anything post-January 2017. We didn’t find anything material on the Intelligence Community Assessment, which was used to push the narrative that President Trump had been compromised by Russia. We also didn’t find anything regarding the Obama administration’s targeting of Trump’s national security adviser, Gen. Michael Flynn.

Nor did Durham address the FBI’s leadership briefing of the Justice Department (DOJ) and Congress in March 2017, in which James Comey misrepresented not only the entirety of the FBI’s investigation but also failed to disclose Danchenko’s information and his complete lack of suitability as a confidential human source—which invalidated the entirety of the Steele dossier.

Importantly, there’s a complete failure on the part of Durham to provide any measure of accountability. There are virtually no criminal referrals contained in Durham’s report nor are there any material recommendations for criminal investigations into these individuals.

Once again, there’s no accountability for those who are truly guilty—and those who are truly privileged.

There’s no accountability because the entire system is built to protect the guilty. Hunter Biden, anyone? Hillary Clinton? James Comey? Barack Hussein Obama? Brandon? They are all clearly guilty, but none of them will ever truly face any justice.

As a Christian I feel frustrated when I see evil and powerful men and women getting away with their wickedness. But I return to the Psalms where I learn what I am to do:

Be still before the Lord
    and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when men succeed in their ways,
    when they carry out their wicked schemes.
(Psalm 37:7)

Some time ago I wrote the word “Democrats” in the margin next to that verse in my Bible.

We can know for sure that the evil will get what is coming to them, but it it tough to be patient while watching the wicked prosper.

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Daily Broadside | Trump May Have Historical Precedent Going For Him, But 2020 Is Historical Precedent Now, Too

We’re still 17.5 months away from the next presidential election, enough time for the Resident to do more considerable damage to the nation of which he is the titular head. I won’t say that he “leads” the U.S. because as we all know, he doesn’t have that capacity.

Nevertheless, we can begin fretting about how the political fight among Republicans will shape up and start making some observations. Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and conservative radio host Larry Elder have officially declared their candidacies to be the Republican nominee for president.

Of course, the presumptive nominee to beat is president-in-exile Donald J. Trump.

Historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Niall Ferguson, makes a prediction about Trump that has caught the public’s attention. 

Former President Donald Trump is likely to become the next U.S. president, according to Scottish-American historian Niall Ferguson.

“A second Trump act is not just possible. It’s fast becoming my base case,” Ferguson, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute, wrote in a May 13 op-ed for The Spectator.

Ferguson explained that there is a “campaign of lawfare against Trump” but the effort “has already started to backfire.”

“It may seem paradoxical that the Democrats are harassing Trump in the courts if they want to run against him. But it makes sense: the prospect of him performing the perp walk attracts media coverage, and media coverage is the free publicity on which Trump has always thrived,” Ferguson wrote.

Ferguson added, “Every column inch or minute of airtime his legal battles earn him is an inch or a minute less for his Republican rivals for the nomination.”

We already know that the DNC, the media, NeverTrumpers and social media giants like Facebook are all in to prevent Trump from becoming president again, and they’ll abuse the law in service to that end if it keeps him out of office.

I’ve said before that the greatest service Trump did for the country, perhaps apart from appointing conservative Supreme Court justices, was to expose the Deep State and their lawless activities, even if he did it inadvertently. Did you see John Durham’s report yesterday? It proves that the FBI knew the Steele dossier was garbage, but they used it as a pretext to open the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into whether Trump was a Russian stooge. It also proves that Hillary Clinton was in on the scam from the start. Think anyone will go to prison for conducting a psyops campaign during a presidential election, or nah?

Norms status: R E S T O R E D.

If Trump wins the White House again, it will be the same harassment and false charges all over again to hamper any effectiveness he might have.

What about Ron DeSantis?

Ferguson also argued that if it were a two-man race between Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, there would be “a good deal more uncertainty around the outcome,” given that the governor “still looks to be in contention” in head-to-head polling.

“When voters are polled about this crowded field, Trump is the clear frontrunner, leading DeSantis by an average margin of nearly 30 points, 52.1 percent to 22.9,” Ferguson wrote.

Currently, the Florida governor has not indicated when or if he will announce a 2024 White House bid.

I like what I’ve seen of DeSantis, but I also like what I’ve seen of Ramaswamy. As you know if you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, I’m very mixed on Trump. Although if he’s the nominee, I’d crawl over broken glass and spilled vinegar to pull the lever for him.

Ferguson places the betting odds on Trump.

As for the primaries, Ferguson notes that Republican candidates that have an early lead in the polls, as Trump does, typically end up the nominee. “Early frontrunners have won Republican primaries in six out of eight competitive races since 1972, when the modern system of primaries was introduced,” he notes. “The two exceptions were John McCain in 2008 and Trump himself in 2016.”

If Donald Trump maintains his current average polling numbers throughout the first half of 2023 but fails to become the Republican Party’s choice for the presidential nomination, he would become the highest-polling candidate ever to be unsuccessful in securing the nomination. So the odds are clearly in his favor.

As for the general election. Democrats assume that Trump can’t beat Biden — and that’s probably the only reason they’re tolerating nominating a vegetable for president — particularly in light of the results of the 2022 midterms. Of course, while Joe Biden likes to take credit for that, the abortion issue was a much more significant factor than Joe Biden.

Ferguson goes on to say that the economy will be a huge factor in the 2024 election and that, historically, “The Republican frontrunner usually wins the nomination, and a post-recession incumbent usually loses the presidential election.”

I don’t know that post-2020 we can count on historical precedent. We now know that the government uses its political power to favor Democrats and that organizations like Facebook pump money into regions where they can harvest ballots on behalf of Democrats. We are becoming like the corrupt third-world countries run by tin pot dictators who hold political power by cheating and rigging and influencing the elections. I used to feel sorry for those people who voted in vain.

Now I just feel sorry for us.

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Daily Broadside | The Intolerable Racial Lies of Joe Biden

Happy Monday. A bit of trivia to start: did you know that our planet Saturn has 145 moons? I didn’t. Last I heard it had, oh, I don’t know … six? Apparently Saturn has taken back the title from Jupiter, which also has dozens of moons.

Back here on earth, the intentional, planned destruction of the United States continues apace. The foolish, morally corrupt sock puppet playing “president” continued stirring up racial animosity with comments he made at Howard University over the weekend.

Biden gave the commencement address to the historically black college of Howard University on Saturday and turned on the pander up to “10” in his bid to win over his audience.

Biden discussed racism and said that hatred “never goes away” and only “hides under the rocks.”  “A vivid demonstration when it comes to race in America, hope doesn’t travel alone. It’s shadowed by fear, by violence, and by hate,” he said.

Biden referenced the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and likened the scene to “the same ‘antisemitic bile’ that was voiced in the 1930s in Europe during the leadup to the Holocaust along with Nazi banners and members of the Ku Klux Klan,’” according to The Hill.

Biden said white supremacy is the most dangerous terrorist threat to the country. He said the battle against racism is “never really over,” but enough people come together to stand up to choose “love over hate, unity over disunion, progress over retreat” and against the “poison of white supremacy.”

He said the graduates he was speaking to represent the future who are going to be leading the country.

“In our lives and the life of a nation, we know that fear can shadow hope, but it’s also true that hope can defeat fear,” Biden said.

To compare a few hundred neo-Nazis gathering on a college campus to hundreds of thousands of stormtroopers marching through the streets of Berlin in the 1930s was not only idiotic, but it was also nothing more than an effort to pander to the lowest instincts of his audience. Instilling fear in black voters is a national obsession with Democrats. And that includes trying to identify “white supremacy” as the greatest terror threat.

“And I’m not just saying this because I’m at a Black HBCU. I say this wherever I go.” The audience laughed, knowing the only reason Biden made the statement about white supremacy was that he was addressing a black audience.

Actually, the only reason that Brandon scaremongers whites is because that’s what the brain trust pulling his strings told him to say.

Hear that, fellas? That’s the sound of our norms being restored! That’s what Democrats, the media, NeverTrump and all the institutions that gamed the 2020 election told us we needed, and now we’re getting our norms back, good and hard.

Biden is the very definition of a fool, someone who says whatever will score him the cheap political points and the financial grift he needs to keep his grubby hands on power.

He’s pander-ific!

It’s so interesting that he and his cronies are claiming that it’s white supremacists that are the gravest danger to our society, but we never see videos or large-scale demonstrations of this great white threat trotted out as evidence. Instead, the Left point to parents objecting to the indoctrination and grooming of their kids through pierced, blue-haired LGBT+ activists or CRT curriculum teaching them that 2+2=4 is racist and calls them “domestic terrorists.”

Brandon had to reach back five years to Charlottesville to find an example of “white supremacy” in which one person — a white woman — was killed. Really? Show me all the examples you have from the intervening years. Bring me up to date on the most recent incidents of whites stalking and beating blacks.

I’m not saying that whites don’t harass or beat or kill blacks. They have and they do. The worst one in recent memory was the inexcusable cold-blooded murder of Ahmaud Arbery by two white men in 2020. They and a third man were all convicted of murder and several other charges.

But if there’s an epidemic of “white supremacy,” where is it? I can give you a few examples of just the opposite to show you what I’d be looking for. From Ben Bartee at PJ Media:

As evidence of the White Supremacy™ epidemic, Biden referenced the Charlottesville attack from 2017 in which one single person was killed, which was actually a white lady.

In 2017, in Charlottesville, Virgina, crazed Neo-Nazis… came out of the fields literally with torches, carrying Nazi banners from the woods and the fields… something I never thought I would see in America… Emerging from dark rooms and remote fields… Hate never goes away… it never goes away, it only hides under the rocks.

Just replace “Neo-Nazis” with Jews, and this totally could’ve been a Hitler speech.

It evokes imagery of a Zombie apocalypse movie or something. Where were these “fields” and “dark rooms” from which the “Neo-Nazis” emerged?

Biden didn’t specify how many of the “Neo-Nazis” in Charlotte were feds of the Ray Epps variety.

Try as one might, isn’t it weird that it’s literally almost impossible to track down a gang of White Supremacists™ beating up lone black people on the streets of America?

Yet, with just a few minutes on Twitter, one can track down clip after clip of “urban youths” beating the snot out of white and Asian victims.

Here’s a black man who just shot two white men in the back of the head in two different locations.

Here’s a black man cursing out a white couple and their child on a NY subway:

Here’s a black student knocking a white teacher’s aide unconscious:

Here’s a story of a black 15-year-old student sucker-punching a white teacher over a confiscated phone:

Here’s a story about a black female student pepper spraying a white male teacher over her confiscated phone:

Here’s a black man punching a white Macy’s employee for allegedly calling him the “N” word, which Macy’s strenuously denies.

Here’s a black man who killed three men because they were white:

When one thinks of white supremacy as a movement, as a “terrorist threat,” one thinks of organized whites marching in a show of force. Sort of like this:

What if that headline read, “An all-White group is arming itself and demanding change. They are the NFAC”? How would that play to the country? Would the DOJ open an investigation into them?

My point is that there’s plenty of black on white violence to be found with just a cursory look across the Internet but we don’t hear dire warnings of “Black Supremacy” as the the most dangerous terrorist threat to our democracy when it’s pointed out. Why not? I just showed you an organized militia that armed up and showed up during the mostly peaceful riots of 2020.

Here’s why: the cultural Marxists in power are trying — and succeeding — to divide our country on the basis of race. And Joe Biden is at the forefront of the effort. The tension he’s creating is spilling over into the hostilities above. But the only group labeled a threat are whites.

Show me the white supremacist epidemic you see.

We are tearing ourselves apart at the seams. Christians need to understand what’s happening, denounce the race-baiting of our leaders, and lead the way with love for people of all races. It is only in Christ that the divisions fall.

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.  (Galatians 3:26-28)