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The Harris-Biden ticket bait-and-switch

Via WorldNetDaily

While I don’t think there is a snowball’s chance in night-time Portland that the Harris-Biden ticket wins in November, it is fun to game out what would await the nation if the Democrats were to win the White House. Yes, I said Harris-Biden, not Biden-Harris.

Make no mistake: Biden-Harris may be on the ballot, but it’s a classic bait-n-switch in progress. It’s actually Kamala Harris who the Democrats have put forth in their quest for power, not Joe Biden. Both candidates have alluded to as much in their public statements about a Harris-Biden ticket, so we can dispense with any notion that Biden will ever govern as president, elected or not.

But for those Democrats who’ll claim I’ve broken out the tinfoil hats and manage to keep a straight face while accusing me, let’s consider the following.

Joe Biden will be the ripe old age of 78 come Nov. 20. Yup, 78 and counting before the man would even be inaugurated. This in comparison to Ronald Reagan, who was just shy of 78 when he left office. Dwight Eisenhower was a bit over 70 when he retired.

Interestingly, age was a huge issue for Democrats during the Reagan years, and the then-president was forced into pledging as part of his 1984 reelection campaign that he would resign should the White House physician ever detect signs of mental deterioration in him.

But no such pledge from old Joe. And the reason is that Democrats know they don’t really need it despite the obvious. Such a pledge would only serve to highlight the problem during the heat of coming out of the basement, so there’s no purpose in doing this from the Democratic perspective.

And while old Joe now scrambles thoughts, words and sentences like so many eggs under the whisk, Democrats need Biden to be the “moderate” Trojan horse that sneaks the radical Harris into the White House.

Democrats’ answer to Biden’s obvious problem? They’ve placed him on political life-support. They’ve put him on a teleprompter.

If not such a sad reality to watch, it would actually be pure comedic gold. The man was caught using the prompter to answer press questions when photos were published showing the prompter screen in the reflection of a glass pane of a picture he was holding up for the camera. Old Joe even went full Ron Burgundy, reading teleprompter cues as if part of his message.

Yes, a Harris administration is the Democrats’ true objective, and old Joe is only the mule to take them on the journey. And Democrats would definitely enforce their objective by any means necessary if Biden gets any wise ideas about actually governing.

Apparently, Biden understands the reality of his puppet-ness, and he did manage one more gaffe for old time’s sake when he stated “they’ll shoot me” if he continued answering questions about democrat tax policy while visiting Kenosha in the aftermath of a police shooting. Joe’s mind might be about gone, but at least his sense of self-preservation is still functioning.

But just in case that goes too, and old Joe suddenly decides he’s entitled to actually hold the office as elected by the people (novel thought, won’t happen), or Joe makes such a poor choice after the ticket is installed by Chief Justice John Roberts, after weeks of rioting and “newly found mail-in ballots,” Democrats have at least two plans at their disposal for dispensing with the geezer.

How do we know this? Because they’ve already used these two plans on the current guy.

First, there is no shortage of dirt on old Biden concerning his extortion of Ukraine. The old gaffe machine even bragged about it on camera. Does anyone in his right mind think that Adam Schiff wouldn’t initiate impeachment proceedings against Joe Biden if old Joe decides he wants to be a “real” president?

That’s provided Schiff is reelected and Democrats hold the House. But that said, I imagine the congressman has already dreamed up his irrefutable proof and contacted his CIA whistle blowers in waiting.

Second, if Comrade Pelosi thinks that impeachment would be too slanderous for her beloved Bolshevik image, there’s always the 25th Amendment, right? Democrats have been talking about invoking that one on the current president for years now.

Does anyone in her right mind think that Pelosi-Schiff-Nadler et al. wouldn’t do this to Joe Biden if he decides he wants to actually be president? All Democrats have to do is march old Joe in front of the cameras and pull the plug on the teleprompter; the entire nation will be begging for his removal.

Trust me, Democrats would do one of these to Joe Biden if he didn’t step aside at the appointed time. And this time it would work for them, because old Joe is no Donald Trump. Biden is the proverbial duck sitting on a pond with any number of shotguns trained on it. Quack, quack.

What’s the takeaway for voters? It’s that the Biden-Harris ticket is actually the Harris-??? ticket, and that Joe Biden will never govern as president. Democrats might let old Joe ride the desk for a few weeks and make the history books as his just reward for doing the electoral deed, but that’s it. Then he’d be gone and Harris would be the president, not Joe Biden.

Read the entire article HERE.

The Left’s Moral Compass Isn’t Broken …

By Dennis Prager

The left’s moral compass is not broken. The left simply rejects such a compass.

All of my life, I have said that the left’s moral compass is broken.

And all of my life, I was wrong.

Why I was wrong explains both the left and the moral crisis we are in better than almost any other explanation.

I was wrong because in order to have a broken moral compass, you need to have a moral compass to begin with. But the left doesn’t have one.

This is not meant as an attack. It is a description of reality. The left regularly acknowledges that it doesn’t think in terms of good and evil. Most of us are so used to thinking in those terms — what we call “Judeo-Christian” — that it is very difficult for us to divide the world in any other way.

But since Karl Marx, the left (not liberalism; the two are different) has always divided the world, and, therefore, human actions, in ways other than good and evil. The left, in Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous words, has always operated “beyond good and evil.”

It all began with Marx, who divided the world by economic class — worker and owner or exploited and exploiter. To Marx and to Marxism, there is no such thing as a good or an evil that transcends class. Good is defined as what is good for the working class; evil is what is bad for the working class.

Therefore, to Marxists, there is no such thing as a universal good or a universal evil. Those of us still in thrall to Judeo-Christian morality believe that good and evil are universal. In other words, whether an act is good or evil has nothing to do with who committed the act — rich or poor, male or female, religious or secular, member of one’s nation or of another nation. Stealing and murder are morally wrong, no matter who stole or who murdered.

That is not the case for Marx and the left. In Marx’s words in “Capital” (“Das Kapital”):

“Right can never be higher than the economic structure of society and the cultural development thereby determined. We therefore reject every attempt to impose on us any moral dogma whatsoever as an eternal, ultimate and forever immutable moral law.”

Fifty-three years later, Marx’s foremost disciple, Vladimir Lenin, architect of the Russian Revolution, proclaimed:

“We say that our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the class struggle of the proletariat. … We do not believe in an eternal morality. … We repudiate all morality derived from non-human (i.e., God) and non-class concepts” (Address to the Third Congress of the Russian Young Communist League, Oct. 2, 1920).

As professor Wilfred Cantwell Smith, director of Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions, wrote in 1957: “For Marxism there is no reason (literally no reason: our universe, the movement posits, is the kind of universe where there cannot conceivably be any reason) for not killing or torturing or exploiting a human person if his liquidation or torture or slave labor will advance the historical process.”

This is how Marx’s ideological heirs, today’s leftists, view the world — with one important difference: Morality is not determined only by class, but by race, power and sex as well.

Read the entire article HERE.

University of Chicago Only Wants English Ph.D. Students Interested in Black Studies

Via The New American

The University of Chicago’s English department has gone fully woke, announcing that it will only accept graduate students interested in “Black Studies” this year and vowing to root out alleged racism in its university.

“The English department at the University of Chicago believes that Black Lives Matter, and that the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Rayshard Brooks matter, as do thousands of others named and unnamed who have been subject to police violence,” reads a faculty statement posted on the department’s website. “As literary scholars, we attend to the histories, atmospheres, and scenes of anti-Black racism and racial violence in the United States and across the world. We are committed to the struggle of Black and Indigenous people, and all racialized and dispossessed people, against inequality and brutality.”

Thus, for the 2020-2021 school year, the department “is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies.”

Among the courses offered for the upcoming year is “Black Shakespeare,” which “explores the role played by the Shakespearean canon in the shaping of Western ideas about blackness, in processes of racial formation, and racial struggle from the early modern period to the present.” Last year’s courses included “Bodies of Transformation,” which covered “trans studies, disability studies, histories of science, queer and postcolonial theory,” and “Of Whiteness,” which studied why black people purportedly want to be white. Students can also participate in the “Race and Capitalism Project,” which conducts “scholarship on how processes of racialization within the U.S. shaped capitalist society and economy and how capitalism has simultaneously shaped processes of racialization” by asking such questions as “How do white supremacy, patriarchy, financialized global capitalism, and other forms of domination articulate with each other?”

Read the entire article HERE.

Minneapolis City Council Panics Over Surge In Violence After Demonizing Police: ‘Where Are The Police?’

Via The Daily Caller

The Democrat-controlled Minneapolis City Council is reportedly panicking as violent crime is surging throughout the city after they called for defunding the police department following the death of George Floyd in late May.

During a two-hour Minneapolis City Council meeting on police reform, “council members told police Chief Medaria Arradondo that their constituents are seeing and hearing street racing which sometimes results in crashes, brazen daylight carjackings, robberies, assaults and shootings,” MPR News reported. “The number of reported violent crimes, like assaults, robberies and homicides are up compared to 2019, according to MPD crime data. More people have been killed in the city in the first nine months of 2020 than were slain in all of last year. Property crimes, like burglaries and auto thefts, are also up. Incidents of arson have increased 55 percent over the total at this point in 2019.”

“Residents are asking, ‘Where are the police’?” said city council member Jamal Osman. MPR News says that Osman indicated that he has been flooded with complaints with residents that their calls for help from the police are not being answered. The report said that some city council members whose constituents live in safer areas are now feeling “terrorized.”

“That is the only public safety option they have at the moment: MPD,” Osman said. “They rely on MPD. And they are saying they are nowhere to be seen.”

City Council President Lisa Bender, who led the charge in the initial calls to defund the police department, complained that she thought the officers were being defiant.

“This is not new,” Bender claimed. “But it is very concerning in the current context.”

The news comes as approximately 100 officers have left the department or taken a leave of absence since the start of the year, more than double the normal rate.

Councilmember Phillipe Cunningham called out those on the city council who were complaining about the lack of a policing after they had called for defunding the police department.

Cunningham said, “What I am sort of flabbergasted by right now is colleagues, who a very short time ago were calling for abolition, are now suggesting we should be putting more resources and funding into MPD.”

Just days after Floyd’s death, the Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a supposed “community-led public safety system.”

Read the entire article HERE.

Just-Laid-Off Minneapolis Police Officer Looks On Helplessly As Rioters Burn Down City Council Members’ Homes

Via The Babylon Bee (Satire)

MINNEAPOLIS, MN—Lieutenant Chris Gastelum was laid off yesterday by the Minneapolis Police Department after the city council voted to defund the police. As he was walking home, he saw, by chance, some rioters throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of several city council members. But, sadly, he was powerless to do anything, as he’d just turned in his gun and badge.

“Help, officer — they’re burning down my house!” screamed a city council member.

“Oh, shoot! Sorry! Would love to help but they couldn’t afford me anymore,” Gastelum said. One rioter paused, worried he would be arrested. “Oh, no, sir, go right ahead,” the former officer said. “I’m not a cop anymore. Feel free to continue with your mostly peaceful protest.”

“Better luck next time!” Gastelum said cheerily to the city council member before skipping on his merry way, a newfound spring in his step.

“It’s a real bummer,” he told reporters later. “I would have loved to help out.” Just then, he turned another corner to see another city council member getting mugged. “Hey, good to see you!” he shouted at her. “Hope everything’s going well for you! Have a great day!”

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