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Daily Broadside | Buffalo Killer Breaks the Stereotype The Left Pushes About The Right

Daily Verse | Nehemiah 1:11
“O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name.”

Monday’s Reading: Nehemiah 4-7

Monday and a horrific mass murder on Saturday evening in a Buffalo, New York, Tops Friendly Market in a predominantly black neighborhood. The alleged assailant, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, shot 13 people and killed ten of them, including retired Buffalo police officer Aaron Salter, who was working as a security guard at the store.

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t roundly condemn this atrocity. I unequivocally do.

It seems to have been a premeditated attack, violating the unambiguous sixth commandment: “You shall not murder.” Of course, that admonition no longer has much power in our increasingly godless and violent culture.

The teenager seems to have specifically targeted blacks, allegedly making “it known he was targeting the Black community” after his arrest. He also live-streamed his attack on social media, broadcasting his rampage for the world to see.

Most media outlets immediately attributed the attack to “white supremacy,” “racism,” “terrorism” and “hate crime.”

It seems clear that the young man did, in fact, target a demographically black neighborhood. He allegedly arrived the day prior and “conducted reconnaissance on the area and store the day before the shooting.” During his rampage he reportedly pointed his gun at a white person, then said “sorry” and didn’t shoot. So, even though he shot two white people, it seems almost certain that his targets were intentionally blacks.

This is deeply disturbing, of course, but not just because it was racially motivated. It’s deeply disturbing because it occurs in an era when the FBI and the DOJ have claimed, without presenting any specific evidence, that “domestic terrorism” is the greatest threat to the homeland. In an article titled “Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11,” The Guardian US newspaper wrote,

Earlier this year an intelligence report warned that racially-motivated extremists posed the most lethal domestic terrorism threat. It said the menace was now more serious than potential attacks from overseas, and the White House published a strategy for countering the problem.

The FBI director, Christopher Wray, told Congress that the 6 January insurrection wasn’t an isolated event and “the problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a number of years”.

Wray added that white supremacists comprise “the biggest chunk of our domestic terrorism portfolio overall” and “have been responsible for the most lethal attacks over the last decade”.

Director Wray said that white supremacists and “racially motivated extremists” posed the greatest threat to the U.S. Now we have a white male who seems to have deliberately targeted a black community and indiscriminately killed ten people and wounded three others.

It would seem that the DOJ and the FBI now have a prime example of what they have warned about.

The problem, however, is that in a 180-page “manifesto” attributed to Gendron, he doesn’t identify himself as a “far-right” supremacist, as the title and the body of The Guardian article talk about (along with other publications, such as NPR’s “Wray Stresses Role Of Right-Wing Extremism In Hearing About Jan. 6 Riot“). Instead, Gendron describes himself like this:

“When I was 12 I was deep into communist ideology, talk to anyone from my old high school and ask about me and you will hear that. From age 15 to 18 however, I consistently moved farther to the right. On the political compass I fall in the mild-moderate authoritarian left category, and I would prefer to be called a populist.”

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Later in the manifest, the shooter insists, “I would prefer to call myself a populist. But you can call me an ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist if you want, I wouldn’t disagree with you.” He also repeatedly attacks capitalists, and rejected the conservative label because, he wrote, “conservativism is corporatism in disguise, I want no part of it.”

If this is indeed the shooter’s manifesto, it’s hardly the writing of a “far-right extremist.” But the Left has a narrative to prop up and the mainstream media are all Democrats with bylines.

Without downplaying the white supremacist angle or the devastation Gendron visited on 13 people and their loved ones, this is hardly a slam dunk for what seems to be an all-out effort ahead of the November midterms to demonize not just the “far-right” but the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump, about whom Brandon, extending his hand in unity, said, “This MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in recent American history.”

I don’t think it’s a stretch to predict that what happened in Buffalo this past weekend will continue to be spoken of as “white supremacy” and “racially motivated hate crime” (which it certainly seems like it was) but without the detail that Gendron described himself as being on the Left. In other words, the media will use the words that most Americans associate with the far-right but conveniently ignore that those words, at least in this case, actually describe someone on the Left.

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Daily Broadside | The Mob Comes for the Justices and Demonizes the Right as “Extreme”

Daily Verse | 2 Chronicles 25:16
While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “Have we appointed you an adviser to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?“

Friday’s Reading: 2 Chronicles 26-28
Saturday’s Reading: 2 Chronicles 29-32

Friday and the end of the first week of May. And what a week it’s been.

The leak of the SCOTUS draft opinion on Dobbs remains the focus and the extremism is ratcheting up.

In response to the Monday night leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, a leftist group called Ruth Sent Us posted what it claims are the home addresses of the Court’s six conservative justices online in preparation for an organized “walk-by protest” set to take place outside the justices’ homes next week.

This is nothing more than pure mob tactics, meant to intimidate and harass, figuratively holding a gun to the head of “conservative” justices.

It brought to mind this image of inmate James McClain, who aims a pistol at Judge Harold Haley in the Marin County Hall of Justice in August 1970. He also holds a sawed-off shotgun taped to the judge’s neck. Both McClain and Haley were killed in the hostage-taker’s attempt to escape.

The judge represents SCOTUS, the guy with the gun is the anti-American Left, and the guy with his hands up is Normal Americans. Conservatives who cherish the America we used to know have to stop being this kind of Normie and throw themselves at the guy with the gun.

In collaboration with Vigil for Democracy, Ruth Sent Us generated and posted a Google Maps graphic pinning what it claims are the home addresses of Justices Barrett, Kavanaugh, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Roberts, where they presumably reside with their families. Vigil for Democracy titled the map, “Extremist Justices,” adding, “Where the six Christian fundamentalist Justices issue their shadow docket rulings.” The map has 3,185 views so far.

The irony in labeling the six Justices “extremist” and “Christian fundamentalist.” The demonization of Christians for their stance on abortion is also disturbing. Do you think activists who are willing to dox Supreme Court Justices and confront the police how they do below would have any hesitation to doing the same to “Christian fundamentalists”?

Add to all of this Brandon’s declaration that if you voted for Trump — and at least 74 million of us did — you’re an extremist.

I’m sorry, but who are the extremists on abortion?

At the same time, House Democrats pass legislation legalizing elective abortion up until the point of birth, and their counterparts in state legislatures push laws legalizing elective abortion up to and even after the point of birth. In 2019, Ralph Northam, then the Democratic governor of Virginia, infamously defended a late-term-abortion law introduced by his colleagues in the state by suggesting that, if a baby was delivered amid an attempted abortion while the mother was in labor, “a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother” about whether the child would be “resuscitated.” In March, Maryland Democrats introduced a law that effectively decriminalized letting a baby die due to neglect through the first 28 days after birth. Just a few weeks later, a bill was introduced in the California legislature legalizing death-by-neglect for babies up to six weeks after birth.

Democrats today hold the most unequivocally, unapologetically, and grotesquely radical line on abortion of any major political party in the Western world. So, [Resident] Biden, tell us again — and speak slowly, so we can understand: Who, exactly, is “the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history”?

You need to understand, if you don’t already, that we are rapidly descending into a state of anarchy, facilitated by those in power and carried out by the useful idiots in the street.

“When you conduct yourself in an utterly lawless way, attacking the institutions of this country, attacking the founding documents of this country, attacking the history of this country, this is what you get: lawlessness,” [Levin] insisted during “Fox & Friends.”

He added, “”It’s just a matter of time. All these institutions are going to collapse. This is a grave assault on the Supreme Court.”

It may be that we will face an incredibly violent era as these issues play out, but for 1,725 babies a day, it will be worth the fight.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | If You Refuse the Mask or the Shot, You’re Not Wanted

Daily Verse | Joel 2:12
“Even now,” declares the Lord,
    “return to me with all your heart,
    with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

Happy Monday my friends. Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. But here we are on Monday — again.

Yesterday I went to a restaurant that we’ve frequented over the last 18 months and by “frequented” I mean that we’ve gone there more often than any other eating establishment, which may or may not mean “occasionally.” The last few times we’ve been there no mask has been required. This time we walked in expecting the same, but the (masked) Karen server behind the counter immediately asked us if we had masks.

“No,” I said. “Do you have any?,” knowing that some establishments would provide them for their guests.

“No,” she replied, “we don’t stock them. And there’s a sign on the door when you come in.”

I confess to seeing the “sign,” which was written in small type as part of a paragraph of small type on an 8½ x 11 sheet of paper taped to the glass door, which I didn’t fully read because we were all going in and it was an interruption and it was hot out and we were hungry and I assumed they only partly meant the word “must” and they didn’t require them before and, besides, who’s enforcing mask mandates anyway?

To be fair, the masked woman behind the counter was probably only enforcing the company policy, so I can’t really fault her, but she wasn’t particularly nice about it. My immediate reaction to her telling us that masks were required and, without saying so, implying that we would not receive service without one, was to turn around and walk out and find a place that would serve us without masks.

But my wife had a mask for me and for her and she put hers on and started her order, while our two guests retrieved theirs, so we stayed. But I was not happy about it.

As I walked to my table I grumbled about how the Beijing Bat Flu was certainly deadly as we stood and ordered but that it very obviously weakened on the way to the table and by the time I sat down it was safe to de-mask because reasons. And how stupid this whole thing is.

I got to thinking about it and, for the first time, I truly understand the observation that being required to wear a mask creates a two-tiered society, with non-maskers being “second-class citizens.” I’ve read that before in the commentariat in a variety of opinion pieces, but it really hadn’t penetrated like it did yesterday.

Many of the authors say that masks are just a first step in dehumanizing the citizenry. Think about it. What is the difference between someone without a mask not getting service and someone with a yellow star not getting service? One concerns medical purity, the other racial purity. In both cases people are classified negatively.

While it’s true that one is contagious and the other isn’t, they both result in the same thing: ostracization from society.

In both situations, the ruling authorities mandate the conditions: not complying with masking denies you service today, wearing a star denied you service then. While we are all ostensibly free to choose whether or not to wear the mask and the Jews were not free to reject wearing the star, the result is the same: complying with the star or not complying with the mask results in a denial of service.

Not wearing a mask and wearing a star both telegraph a negative association to the rest of society. And while non-maskers and those refusing to get the vaccine are not being shipped off to concentration camps (yet), they are subjected to tyrannical language and treatment from those who decree the conditions and their supporters in government and business.

The Resident pointedly blamed one-third of Americans for the rise in the Delta variant.

“We’ve been patient. But our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us,” he said, all but biting off his words. The unvaccinated minority “can cause a lot of damage, and they are.”

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After months of using promotions to drive the vaccination rate, Biden is taking a much firmer hand, as he blames people who have not yet received shots for the sharp rise in cases killing more than 1,000 people per day and imperiling a fragile economic rebound.

Shock jock and noted medical expert Howard Stern used similarly strong language about the unvaccinated.

Radio host Howard Stern said people who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 are “idiots” and called for vaccinations to be mandatory.

“When are we gonna stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say it’s mandatory to get vaccinated? F— ’em. F— their freedom. I want my freedom to live,” Stern said on his SiriusXM program on Tuesday. “I want to get out of the house already. I want to go next door and play chess. I want to go take some pictures. This is bull—-.”

In another rant, he said,

“We have no time for idiots in this country anymore. We don’t want you,” Stern said. “We want you to all either go to the hospital, stay home, die there with your COVID, don’t take the cure but don’t clog up our hospitals with your COVID when you finally get it.

“Stay home, don’t bother with science, it’s too late. … We want you to go away,” he continued. “We want you to leave the country. Go somewhere where they have ultimate freedom, wherever that is, some bizarro world where you don’t have to take the vaccine. … I don’t know when nonsense became such a thing.”

Here’s Jimmy Kimmel, the very unfunny late night host.

“Dr. Fauci said that if hospitals get any more overcrowded, they’re going to have to make some very tough choices about who gets an ICU bed. That choice doesn’t seem so tough to me.

Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes, come right in, we’ll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace, wheezy.”

Add one more for good measure. Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign manager, David Plouffe, called MAGA supporters a “sick, perverted one-third of the country.”

He added, “I think these governors, legislative leaders who have stood in the way of vaccinations, who belittled COVID, who don’t want masks in school — here’s the thing, we’re basically two-thirds of the country in support of mask mandates in schools. So again, they’re speaking to their sick, perverted one-third of the country, you know that gets injected by Fox News and Sinclair and Breitbart, all the stuff.”

Jews forced to wear the yellow Star of David in 1941 Nazis Germany were subject to segregation and discrimination. We can’t deny that something similar is happening. Our freedom is being restricted if we are being demonized as “idiots” and “sick and perverted,” told we’re not wanted, that our freedom is meaningless, that we should essentially f*** off and die, and we’re not allowed to conduct transactions and travel in public unless we wear a mask.

Feel the love?

Right now we have the opportunity to push back and refuse to comply with the tyrannical edicts from our rulers. But how long will that opportunity last?


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Daily Broadside | Resident Biden Comes to Town and Conservatives Protest—Including Me

Daily Verse | Psalm 136:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.
His love endures forever.

Thursday and as I wrote in yesterday’s Broadside, Resident Biden visited my neighborhood yesterday. I didn’t think I’d be able to make time to participate in any demonstrations, but it just so happened that I was between personal appointments and had the day off when the Biden event occurred. So the Missus and I grabbed our “Trump 2020” flag, hopped in the car, and drove over to where the Thief in Chief was making an appearance at McHenry County College (MCC) in Crystal Lake, IL.

According to the Patch:

McHenry County is the only Chicago-area county that picked Donald Trump for president during the November election. Biden received 78,153 votes in McHenry County during the last presidential election and Trump had 82,257 votes.

There were a few dozen Trump supporters holding a protest of sorts outside of MCC, most just waving American flags and Trump flags, making their presence known. There were only one or two Biden supporters, including one woman in a car with a sign taped to the inside of her windshield that read, “Trump lost. Get over it.” The poor, deluded commie.

We never saw the Resident, who flew in from O’Hare on Marine One. I did get to meet Gary Rabine (pronounced rā’bīne), who is running for Governor of Illinois. We had a good seven- or eight-minute chat in which he laid out his vision for Illinois and pitched himself as a builder who can turn the state around. Maybe I can help him unseat Pritzker.

I’ve never been to a protest or a demonstration opposing or supporting a United States president (I suppose I still haven’t, since Biden didn’t win) but I’m so angry at the outright lies, communist sympathies and extremism of the Left that I feel I have no choice but to get involved somehow.

Waving a “Trump 2020” flag wasn’t stunning or brave. But it was a step of activism and I was able to express my opposition to the fraudulent Biden administration. Not because I want Trump in office (although I do) but because it’s an act of defiance against the ruling junta.

To the Left, I’m just a white supremacist for wanting to Keep America Great. But after learning so much about cultural Marxism over the last few weeks and sharing it with you, I’m more convinced than ever that every one of us needs to take action of some kind. We can’t just allow the Left to occupy more and more of this country without putting up any resistance.

At least, I can’t.

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Daily Broadside | Trump is Out But MAGA Is Still Here

Daily Verse | 1 Chronicles 17:20
There is no one like you, O Lord, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.

Happy Monday, Broadsiders, and welcome to the last week of April. “Thirty days hath September, April, May June and November; all the rest have 31, except March 2020, which has 936 if we’re counting two weeks to flatten the curve.”

This weekend on my way to a hardware store I was sitting at a red light when a pick-up truck sporting a large Trump flag drove through the intersection in front of me. I had to check my watch; wasn’t Trump sort of last November or, at the latest, January 6?

Seeing a Trump flag go whipping by out of “proper” political context sort of encouraged me. I often rehearse for people who want to know that I was a Never Trumper during the 2016 primaries because he was a braggart and loudmouth and then I wrote in a third-party candidate in the general election, probably because I loved Hillary and wanted to kill our country or something.

Anyway, by the end of Trump’s first term I finally understood the man and his temperament. I saw him keeping promises as he brought back jobs, closed the border, revved the economy, got us out of idiotic international agreements, pulled our troops out of pointless conflicts, made us energy-independent and asserted American exceptionalism as the entire DC machine tried to take him down while he set about destroying the pretense that the legacy media are objective truth seekers and instead are the communist sympathizers they are.

He was actually making things happen for the benefit of everyone. Black and Latino unemployment was at record lows; our overall unemployment numbers were at record lows, companies were having a hard time finding people to employ and stocks kept setting records. We were cruising.

But then came the Asian Lung Pox, unleashed by the Chinese Communist Party on an unsuspecting world. Dr. Faux Chi, an inept bureaucrat whose salary is more than the president’s of the United States, played right into their hands and insisted that this virus was such an existential threat to health and life that America must “shelter in place” and shut down completely, in the process destroying the economy and thousands of small businesses.

Trump didn’t help himself by being at the lectern every day which tied him to the results and amplified every turn of phrase and claim that he made. He should’ve let Pence and the team handle it.

Add to that the death of George Floyd and the months of Burn, Loot and Murder, Inc., as anarchists took to the streets demanding that the police be defunded and that white people admit their privilege and supremacy and give up their place in society and pretty soon the U.S. looked like some kind of banana republic as people cowered out of confusion and fear of what they could and couldn’t do while the Marxists took over the streets.

Top it all off with a fraudulent election and an unwise breach of the Capitol and Trump was turned out by the junior commies of the Left and their enablers in the House and Senate—and I’m not just talking about Democrats. And now we’ve got a brain-dead cypher as figurehead-in-chief who’s being trundled around like a “Weekend at Bernie’s” corpse.

All this to say that when Trump left office, I felt his departure acutely. And it seems as though someone else has, too, someone who flies his Trump flag in the face of any and all who voted for the feckless Resident occupying the White House right now.

Seeing the flag was encouraging because it’s defiant. It says that in spite of your anti-American subversion of the Constitution and all that it guarantees us as free men and women, I stand proudly and defiantly against you. It tells the community around here that the MAGA spirit is still alive and well in America, and it won’t be long until we’re able to again vote against the forces arrayed against us in all of the institutions that have been corrupted by both elected and unelected MAGA-haters who despise our founding and the men who invented our form of government.

So be encouraged. I plan to fly my Trump flag this summer as an act of solidarity with the anonymous pickup truck driver and as a way to thumb my nose at the domestic enemies living in my country. I want to tell the community that we haven’t gone away, we’re not defeated and that hope springs eternal.

If they think America First has gone the way of the dodo, they have another think coming.