Daily Broadside | Healing the Country Has No Place Here

Daily Verse | Job 24:22-23
“But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life. He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.”

Thursday and the beat goes on.

Resident Biden gave a speech on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa, OK, massacre, an inexcusable and shameful mark on our nation’s record. (The massacre, I mean, not Biden’s speech, although I’ll get to that in a second.)

The Tulsa Massacre began over an alleged assault on a white teenage girl by a black teenage boy. At least 39 people died (26 black and 13 white) in bloody riots led by mobs of white men who burned down “Black Wall Street” in the Greenwood District of Tulsa. Churches, businesses and homes were destroyed, 6,000 African Americans were detained like criminals, and hundreds were left homeless. If you haven’t read about it, I encourage you to do that. It was one of the worst cases of racial violence in our history, it was memory-holed, and it should be remembered with horror and sadness.

Biden, the promised Uniter-in-Chief, couldn’t have been more divisive in his speechmaking in Tulsa. While it’s appropriate to recognize the cold-blooded injustice and hatred driving the massacre, his handlers used the occasion to drive the racial wedge deeper and to perpetuate the lie that at our core, America is a racist nation, full of white supremacists who are the greatest threat we face today.

That is, of course, a great pile of horsepucky.

Nevertheless, he persisted. “We must address what remains the stain on the soul of America,” he declared. “What happened in Greenwood was an act of hate and domestic terrorism, with a through-line that exists today.”

He is absolutely correct that it was an act of hate. But domestic terrorism? That’s an add-on that stretches the meaning of terrorism. It was added so that he could then draw a “through-line” to his insistence that “terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today.”

And listen to how he couched that claim: “As I said in my address to the joint session of Congress, according to the intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today, not ISIS, not Al-Qaeda, white supremacists. That’s not me. That’s the intelligence community under both Trump and under my administration.

As Bugs Bunny says, “What an ultra maroon!”

We all know how reliable the “intelligence community” was under Trump, don’t we? It’s hard to imagine that Biden appealing to the Deep State gives his claim credibility with anyone except True Believers Who Truly Believe.

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard this claim since January 6. As Tyler O’Neil wrote, it’s roots are found in the aftermath of the Capitol Hill riot:

Democrats have drafted legislation to combat domestic terrorism and some of them have not been subtle about the targets of budding new government surveillance.

Former CIA Director John Brennan warned against an “unholy alliance” including “religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, and even libertarians” that “looks very similar to insurgency movements that we’ve seen overseas.” These remarks came amid leftist calls for “deprogramming,” “de-Baathification,” “re-educating,” and “reprogramming” the 75 million people who voted for Trump.

Even Democrat former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has vocally warned against leftists “who are trying to undermine our constitutionally-protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style surveillance.”

We’re being gas-lit. There’s no impending white supremacy terrorist threat in the homeland today. The fiction that the January 6 riot was an “armed insurrection” is a damnable lie. While the rioters damaged the building and should not have gone inside, they were unarmed, they killed no one, the only “takeover” was someone sitting in Nancy Pelosi’s office, and the only person who was killed was an unarmed female Trump supporter shot by a still unnamed Capitol Hill police officer.

Yet the junta in Washington, D.C. has seized on the opportunity to fabricate an imminent threat. Why?

Because they’re laying the groundwork to consolidate their gains and impose a surveillance state on us. We stand in the way of their lunatic vision. As Robert Spencer observes,

When Biden talks about “white supremacy,” what he really means are ordinary citizens who oppose the dominant political philosophy. Lies like what Biden is spreading here are in service of solidifying the hegemony of that philosophy.

By repeating the lie, it gains credence with the public at large. It also puts any objection to the dishonest characterization in the position of seeming to validate the claim. If white supremacist terrorism is the most urgent threat we face, then any semblance of “white” activism pushing back on the claim will be touted as “evidence” of the threat we face. That may be enough to put the kibosh on individual efforts to organize a response.

The only imminent threat we face is from the unholy cabal in the White House. Biden had an opportunity to acknowledge the pain and trauma inflicted on innocent black Americans and to highlight how far we’ve come since then. Instead he demonized white Americans and deepened the divide with his dishonest agitprop, all in service to his radical agenda to finish the sinister transformation of America that began under Barack Hussein Obama.

Daily Broadside | Biden Tells Country That White Supremacists Are ‘Most Lethal Terrorist Threat’

Daily Verse | 1 Chronicles 29:14
“Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand.”

A very happy Thursday to you, Broadsiders. Ignorance is something I don’t understand.

Can you believe that today is the 100th day that Resident Biden has been in the White House? It’s been one hundred days of radical malfeasance, lies and misdirection. And last night the Resident himself stepped up to the mic and gave a glowing report on the state of the “union.”

It was an odd event given that the chamber wasn’t even half full, and those who were in view of the cameras were social distancing with masks in place and giving each other knuckles and elbows in greeting. If I was there, I’d be giving knuckles and elbows, too, but not in greeting.

There was the historic seating of two women behind the Resident as he gave his speech, the first time in U.S. history that has happened. It’s just too bad that it was these two anti-Americans that held the seats.

Honestly, it had all the feel of a reunion of an iconic rock group you used to love, like The Who or The Rolling Stones, but in a mausoleum. You want it to live up to the hype and grandeur of what you remember, but it’s all just going through the motions and the players can’t deliver like they used to.

It just seemed like a lot of empty theater.

So what did Biden say? Well, it wasn’t so much a “State of the Union” speech as much as it was an “A List of All the Spending I Want to Do to Wreck the Country So Get the Bill to My Desk” speech. His theme was “Crisis and Opportunity.” He painted us as a country in crisis when he took the oath of office and now “America is on the move again” — whatever that means.

Biden touched on everything from the Chinese Lung Pox to eliminating child poverty to job creation to health care to bringing home our troops to white supremacy to gun violence to racism to the right to vote. In every case it meant taking more money while promising not to burden the middle class with more taxes.

He started off making an absurd claim that the Capitol Hill breach on January 6 was “the worst attack on our democracy since the civil war.”

I’d point out that the protesters were allowed in by the Capitol Police, they were unarmed and the only person killed as a result of violence was an unarmed Trump supporter who was summarily executed with a bullet to the neck by a still-unnamed Capitol Police officer. Biden called it an “insurrection,” which it clearly wasn’t. Not to mention all the lies about Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick’s death, which was hyped as the result of a thrown fire extinguisher when in fact he suffered two strokes and died of natural causes a day later.

As Tyler O’Neil points out, “The Capitol rioters did break into the U.S. Capitol and vandalize it, stealing Nancy Pelosi’s rostrum. However, they did not kill anyone or stop the certification of the Electoral College vote in the 2020 presidential election.” It seems to have been a mixture of antifa agitators, Trump supporters and right wing agitators. On the other hand, how many thousands of anarchists raged through multiple cities over the last year, burning police stations and federal court buildings without being labeled extremists?

The moment causing me the most cringe was when he talked about the American Jobs Plan that includes building highways and bridges and railroads and he announced that Value Pick Harris would lead the effort. You mean the same VP Harris that you put in charge of controlling the border that’s really not under control?

Cue cynical, disbelieving laugh.

The worst of it all — besides the unfettered spending and intrusion of government into the lives of our children by suggesting that there be “free” pre-school education and another “free” two years of college after your standard 12 years of education for a total of 14 years of indoctrination — was when Biden said that white supremacy was now the greatest terrorist threat to the United States.

And, we won’t ignore what our own intelligence agencies have determined – the most lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today is from white supremacist terrorism.

Really? Exactly what does that phrase, “white supremacist terrorism,” mean? He didn’t define it and as a category, it’s rather vague. White supremacy means what, exactly? The Proud Boys? The KKK? White Evangelical Christians? Normal Americans who think the election was fraudulent?

And “terrorism.” Exactly what evidence do you have that such political violence is “the most lethal threat” to the our country? Show us the events, the body count and the massive plans you’re disrupting from these “white supremacists.”

This is part of a campaign to smear white, patriotic conservative Americans as a threat. Yes, there are white supremacists and yes, they occasionally commit some sort of crime. But they do not have the numbers to materially disrupt our safety and security. Therefore, that vague term, “white supremacist terrorism,” will be used to classify anyone who disputes or disagrees with the direction we’re headed.

Biden’s speech was mendacious, amounting to little more than a wish list that will take more money and more power from the people and transfer it to the government. It was a sad affair and makes me long for the day Resident Biden moves out.