Scattershots – 4sep20 (updated 9sep20)

The most important goal of the leftist project is to use the twin 2020 tragedies to alter the very storyline of America. – Mike Gonzales

George Rebane

The Great Divide draws nigh.  One of our astute readers highlighted ‘The Revolution is Upon Us’ by Mike Gonzales in the comment stream of the last Sandbox.  It is in an important essay that correctly highlights much of what is going on in America today as we approach the most contentious and possibly disastrous presidential election in our country’s history.  Read it.

Bumblebrain’s Big Lies continue with his latest claim in Kenosha that it has been President Trump who has divided the country.  In the meantime, more clear-minded commentators from both the Left and Right recognize that it has been America's Left, dragging the Democrat Party with it, that started the quick march to Marxism.  If anything, this leftward lurch has also attracted some spineless Republicans to lean to port in the attempt to keep their elected jobs.  The Republican Party's platform has remained unchanged over the last years, which cannot be said for Team Pelosi et al.

Trump on voting twice.  The president’s words and meaning have been mangled beyond recognition by the lamestream and our desperate Democrats.  (more here and here)

Here are the president’s exact words to Jon Evans of North Carolina’s WECT:  “Well they'll go out and they'll vote, and they're going to have to go and check their vote by going to the poll and voting that way, because if it tabulates, then they won't be able to do that. So, let them send it in and let them go vote, and if the system is as good as they say it is, obviously they won't be able to vote. If it isn't tabulated, they'll be able to vote so that's the way it is. And that's what they should do.”  He repeated a similar message last night in Pennsylvania.

School shutdowns are butt stupid.  Using persuasive, cogent, and technically correct arguments more suitable for polite company, Drs J. Battacharya and M. Kulldorff of Stanford and Harvard Universities respectively,  inform us in ‘The Case Against Covid Tests for the Young and Healthy’ that – “There is little purpose in using tests to check asymptomatic children to see if it is safe for them to come to school. When children are infected, most are asymptomatic, and the mortality risk is lower than for the flu. While adult-to-adult and adult-to-child transmission is common, child-to-adult transmission isn’t. Children thus pose minimal risk to their teachers. If a child has a cough, a runny nose or other respiratory symptoms, he should stay home. You don’t need a test for that. … Sweden was the only major Western country that kept schools open for kids 15 and younger throughout the pandemic, with no masks or mass testing. How did it turn out? Zero Covid-19 deaths among 1.8 million children attending day care or school. Teachers didn’t have an excess infection risk compared with the average of other professions.”  I want to emphasize that I’m using ‘butt stupid’ as opposed to ‘ignorant’ to describe public policies keeping kids from attending school – ignorance can be corrected by supplying the ignorant with relevant data and information; stupidity refers to the cognitive inability to process, which is a deficit much more resistant to remediation.  Unfortunately, it is the latter that afflicts government bureaucracies far and wide.

[6sep20 update]  We are no longer sufficient unto ourselves.  Foreign worker visas have been hampered by C19 strictures and other prohibitions intended to give a helping hand to the non-existent American worker.  Worker shortages have cropped up everywhere, led by the lack of qualified and willing talent in sectors such as technology, hospitality, recreation, and agriculture. (more here and here)  Equally troubling is the prohibition on academic visas for grad school students studying and researching STEM fields.  Since these resident workers earn and spend the bucks here in this consumer dominated economy, it is not clear where the additional consumer spending will come from to make up for the dear departed or never arrived.  More and more of our fellow Americans continue to get college degrees that require skill sets for which no one is willing to spend their own money to hire – of course, government spending OPM is the ever-present employer of last resort for those know-nothings, for which then the country suffers.  This reliance on legal and illegal foreigners cannot end well for us.

‘America Hit by Roughly 550 Violent Demonstrations in Three Months’  A bit of news totally alien to consumers of lamestream media.  National Propaganda Radio wakes up the country every morning with reports of “protests” against “racial injustice” in our cities, never mentioning the real openly declared aims of the BLM and Antifa rioters, amply funded, supplied, and transported as required to keep the heat on in the cities with incompetent, compliant, and abetting Democratic administrations.  And then, led by Team Pelosi and their lamestream lackeys, the word goes out again that the whole thing is fomented by our divisive President Trump.  And for millions of light readers across this land, this kind of reportage sustains their ground truth about what’s really going on.

China is weaponizing water.  China is the source of major Asian rivers that flow into over ten other Asian countries.  On its rivers China has built over 87,000 dams, and continues to build ever more of these critical infrastructures that create huge reservoirs for in-country irrigation, transportation, and exerting strategic influence on its neighbors.  China can and has created droughts and floods that cause major impacts on the lives and economies of downstream countries.  If you don’t play ball according to China’s rules, your lands may be flooded or crackling dry. (more here) Now China also has dam problems, witness the structural cracks developing in its Three Gorges Dam and others (more here).  Also, dams are very vulnerable to attack during wartime, and many experts predict that in this century the major cause of wars will be over access to fresh water.

[9sep20 update]  Left always wants to silence the Right, but not vice versa.  Why?  This litmus test for a leftwinger is reliable because the Left never ever has any new ideas, but can only offer slogans for old collectivist policies that have never worked here or elsewhere.  So in the battle of ideas their best tactic is to take a pass and call off the contest.  Instead of ideas, they substitute the Big Lie and a stream Alinsky Alternatives.  Locally this tactic was again evident in calls to silence both RR and Jo Ann who sits on The Union's editorial board.  And the Big Lie gambit is constantly available in its various forms in our local left-listing newspaper, today having a particularly vicious cornucopia of anti-Trump copy.

The Democrats continue to work a brilliant tactic to promote Biden, they keep Trump talking about Trump.  Biden is a singularly unaccomplished, corrupt, and feckless politician with a 50-year record of absolutely no accomplishments that he can be allowed to burnish in public.  And he doesn’t even dare read off the list of policies his Marxist handlers have planned for us.  So to divert and suppress the Republicans’ strong suit of accomplishments and planned policies, the Dems have made the campaign about personalities, and ego-brimming Trump is more than happy to comply.  Our president still doesn’t understand that not many people like him personally, and that his only hope is informing voters of his record of accomplishments and plans for a prosperous and sovereign America.  Were he to make the campaign about what he’s done and plans to do, ol’ Bumblebrain would show up at that gunfight with an empty holster.

Comments

[Todd Juvinall]

Biden's presser this morning started off with the latest lie from The Atlantic Mag. The man is a true swamp scumbag. Paul Emery's favorite type of politician.

[Scott O]

Oh boy - more meat to sink our teeth into.
"The Great Divide draws nigh."
I do believe the great divide has been upon us for some time. I know George will possibly disagree, but the next general election will merely signal the rate of speed at which our nation sinks. Will the ship of state sail on for a bit further listing ever-more to port or will we be getting into the life boats (ala Titanic - won't be nearly enough for all passengers) sometime in my lifetime?
"Bumblebrain’s Big Lies continue"
The big news here is how paper thin (microns-thin?) so many so-called R's political convictions are. Pathetic.
"Trump on voting twice."
Well - good for George for at least providing the full text. The TDS set have their ears and minds shut and will see/hear none of it.
"School shutdowns are butt stupid."
This one is an excellent example of never letting a crises go to waste. Mostly this is the far-left school teachers unions trying to leverage the CV pandemic to get money and concessions they wouldn't normally receive. Oh yeah - and the bankrupt retirement system they have needs a wee bit of help.
Now all we need for the weekend's festivities are a few more young lads 'turning their life around' to pull guns on the police and off to the races we go!

[George Rebane]

ScottO 1117am - Just a reminder, on RR and its Glossary, I have always used 'Great Divide' to label the regional separation of our polarized citizenry in a manner where each has the ability to practice its ideology and principles of governance without interference from the other. This has yet to happen.

[Scott O]

re your definition - Then it would appear we are somewhat close in one regard. The left certainly seems able to do whatever they want with very little to no interference. The conservatives - not so much. I would say the 'Great Divide' by your definition will never actually happen. The left will never allow the 'other side' to operate without interference. That would require 2 separate sovereign nations.
My 'great divide' is the 2 separate realities that common citizens can exist in. I see looting, arson and violence and the left sees 'mostly' peaceful protests.

[George Rebane]

ScottO 149pm - Whether 'my definition' (actually shared by a number of writers) will ever occur is indeed problematic - i.e. low probability event - as I have described many times. Were it to happen, it would require at least a confederacy to define the two separate domestic political systems, with national defense, foreign policy, and trade to be defined at the national level. And that, of course, presents a bunch of high hurdles. To separate sovereign nations would be simpler.

Under its own topic, it will be instructive for us to discuss the structure and more restrictive provisions of a new constitution that will not permit the backsliding to socialism to occur again.

[Bill Tozer]

re: The Great Divide draws nigh

'Why the State Seeks to Abolish Both Tradition and History'

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/why-the-state-seeks-to-abolish-both-tradition-and-history/

[George Rebane]

BillT 946pm - No study of this question required. A state needs to rewrite the people's past any number of times as it proceeds toward totalitarianism. A currently consistent view of the past prevents embarrassing queries from the sheeple, to which the state must reply with tendentious prevarications, more crowding of their gulags, or potentially destabilizing mass executions.

[Robert Cross]

adulterer, liar, chicken hawk, asshole-- Todd's favorite type of politician

[George Rebane]

RobertC 1046am - There you go again. And your contribution to the dialogue was what?

[Scott O]

Booby X - 10:46: Adulterer - OK, all of the Kennedys, Eisenhower, MLK Jr, Clinton, most all of Hollywood lefties, etc.
Chicken Hawk - Clinton, Clinton, Obama, Biden, etc.
Asshole - Robert Cross, Rbt Cross esq. Booby X etc.
Any more disqualifications you can think of, Booby?

[Bill Tozer]

‘The Left Doesn’t Really Want To Abolish The Police. They Want To Be The Police‘

https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/04/the-left-doesnt-really-want-to-abolish-the-police-they-want-to-be-the-police/

[Bill Tozer]

re: 550 violent demonstrations in 3 months.

This piece reminds me of that jackass CNN reporter who went to border to prove there were no mass caravans invading the USA. Never mind that he was standing next to a legal port of entry and the crossing were where the fence ended 11 miles down the line. See, Trump lied. Nothing to see here.

This piece also reminds me of the whack job Lefty comments on the Union’s opinion pieces. Just because there are not riots and looting and smashed windows and retail outlets burned to the ground or tire shops mobbed and robbed in Nirvanna City means it does not exist. Sickening.
About another Paul...Krugman the loser: Another bubble boy.

‘Clueless Krugman Takes Morning Stroll, Sees No Destruction in ‘Cheerful’ NYC‘

"I went for a belated NYC run this morning, and am sorry to report that I saw very few black-clad anarchists. Also, the city is not yet in flames," the economist wrote on Twitter. "The political question of the day is whether Trump can win politically by hammering on a nonexistent crisis of order in America's cities. You would think not, but I'm not 100% confident."
A few ripostes by conservatives rounded up by Fox News:

"'I tested negative for coronavirus, therefore nobody has it,'" The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis quipped.

"I'm amazed by the spate of pseudo-thinkers and pseudo-journalists who are now doing the full Pauline Kael: if I didn't personally witness something on my morning jog, it isn't happening," Ben Shapiro wrote.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2020/09/06/clueless-krugman-takes-morning-stroll-sees-no-destruction-cheerful