Daily Verse | 2 Kings 17:15
They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do,” and they did all the things the Lord had forbidden them to do.

It’s the second day of the third week of the fourth month of twenty-twenty-one. A recent study found that women who are a little heavier live longer than the men who mention it.

On January 6, you may remember, President Trump held a rally and said things like this:

Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down and I’ll be there with you. We’re going to walk down—we’re going to walk down. Anyone you want, but I think right here, we’re going to walk down to the Capitol—And we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them—I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. Today, we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections.

He claimed that the election was stolen and invited the crowd to walk down to the Capitol with him to make their voices heard “peacefully and patriotically” to the Senators who were confirming the electoral college votes. We all know what happened after that; the Capitol was breached and President Trump was later impeached for “incitement of insurrection.”

The charge was ridiculous and the Senate acquitted him.

One of those who voted to impeach Donald J. Trump a second time was Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). In fact, she boasted on her official government website that she drafted four articles of impeachment “in response to the tragedy of January 6, 2021.” Mad Max was deeply troubled that “Donald Trump provided white supremacists, right-wing extremists, and conspiracy theorists validation and free reign to spew hatred, bigotry, and racism, and yes – commit extreme violence.”

How ironic, then, that this past weekend she showed up in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, flapping her yapper in support of demonstrators protesting the police killing of Daunte Wright on April 11. But she also made some comments that did more than imply violence, unlike the comments of President Donald J. Trump.

Speaking of the Derek Chauvin trial, here’s some of what she said.

• I’m going to fight with all of the people who stand for justice. We’ve got to get justice in this country and we cannot allow these killings to continue.
• I know this, we’ve got to stay in the streets. We are looking for a guilty verdict.
• If nothing does not happen then we have to not only stay in the streets but we have to fight for justice. I am very hopeful and I hope that we are going to get a verdict that is guilty, guilty, guilty and if we don’t, we cannot go away.
• Oh, not manslaughter. Oh, no, this is guilty of murder! I don’t know if it’s in the first degree, but as far as I’m concerned it’s first-degree murder!
• We’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.

Here’s an elected official of our national government demanding a certain outcome and threatening “more” confrontation. The outcome she demands is, guilty of first-degree murder, which is impossible because Chauvin is not charged with first-degree murder. But Mad Max isn’t interested in facts; “I don’t know if it’s in the first degree, but as far as I’m concerned it’s first-degree murder!”

Having set the expectation for the jury to do the impossible, she then threatens the city with continued riots. Remember, Minneapolis is where Burn Loot Murder began and there’s been rioting, looting, murder and arson. How could it possibly get “more confrontational”?

This isn’t the first time that Waters has called for confrontation with the people she dislikes. In 2018 she told a group of her supporters to harass Trump administration officials.

Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.

By her own standards, Mad Max fails the incitement test. The editorial board of the New York Post is demanding that she be removed from office:

Maxine Waters is trying to create a civil war, and her irresponsible rhetoric is inciting violence. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should strip her of her committee assignments and move for a vote to remove Waters from office.

Of course, Nancy Pelosi has declined to censure, impeach or otherwise punish Waters, who, to borrow her words, has “provided Blacks, left-wing extremists, and members of Antifa validation and free reign to commit extreme violence.”

The lack of consequences is simply another example of the Left’s double standards. One set of rules for conservatives, another set for progressives.

If the Left didn’t have double standards, they’d have none at all.