The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
Am I concerned about right-wing extremists? No. I’m concerned about the LEFT-wing extremists. They’ve already trashed and burned down major portions of several cities, they’ve announced that they’ll really get violent if Trump wins re-election, they’re threatening Trump supporters with retaliation, etc.
Am I concerned about right-wing extremists? No. But LEFT-wing extremists should be.
From his column “Held Captive by Pandemic Lies” at Epoch Times (paywall), copied from the excerpt at Instapundit:
In previous pandemics, the bug was allowed to burn its way through the body politic, its toll just part of the cost of being human. So what’s different about this seasonal malady?
For one thing, it’s occurring in an election year, at the start of which the American economy was firing on all cylinders in a way it hasn’t in decades. When President Trump’s political enemies realized the Covid shutdown could be wielded as a wrecker’s ball against the American and global economies, they jumped at the chance.
For another, a society that has moved from “pay any price, bear any burden” to “if it saves just one life” is no longer capable of facing or dealing with reality.
As they used to say, “WORD.”
Back in March I predicted that Joe Biden would not be the Democrat candidate on the ballot November 3. I cited as precedent the 2002 Senate campaign of New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli. When it became obvious that Torricelli, under criminal investigation, was not going to win that race, the DNC – in direct violation of election laws for the state of New Jersey – replaced him on the ticket with former Senator Frank Lautenberg. The RNC appealed. The New Jersey Supreme Court rubber-stamped it.
Lautenberg won.
I predicted that Cuomo would get tapped. He still might!
There’s 15 days to November 3 as I write this. It’s still not too late!
(I write this half in jest. But only half.)
Yes, seriously. Excerpt:
Though I am an unlikely messenger at first glance — rest assured that the name that I carry is antithetical to the values I hold — my heart is in the right place: with you. The level of urgency coupled with the platform afforded to me by my circumstance compel me to speak up and warn you before it is too late.
She said so right here:
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From his review of Michael Anton’s new book, The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return in the Clairmont Review of Books, The Election to End All Elections:
They (the Ruling Class) do not believe they have to worry about controlling their own violent troops because they are sure that they have nothing to fear from conservatives. That is because conservatives have continued to believe that the United States’s institutions and those who run them retain legitimacy. Conservative complaisance made possible a half-century of Progressive rule’s abuse.
When the belief in that legitimacy goes away, they’re going to get a hell of a shock.
As always with Prof. Codevilla, read the whole thing.
…is this one:
If Hunter “gave” his father half of everything he got paid, Burisma, the Chicoms, the Russian oligarch’s wife, what are the tax implications for his father, not to mention the foreign influence questions? That should be the real story. And when was the last time Joe Biden got audited by the IRS?
AMERICA DOESN’T HAVE TWO PARTIES. IT HAS ONE PARTY, WHICH SURE, HAS ITS FLAWS. AND THEN IT HAS THE DEMOCRATS, WHICH ARE A CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY SKINSUITING A POLITICAL PARTY. THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE TWO PARTIES AGAIN IS TO SLAP THE CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY SO HARD THEY TASTE 2024. LET’S GET TO IT. – Sarah Hoyt
Republicans believe the Supreme Court exists to defend the Constitution. Democrats believe the Supreme Court exists to ram through their policy agenda. – Twitter, October 12