Thursday Morning Breakfast For The Brain

Good morning Deplorables, all hell is about to break loose.

Obama – puppet or puppeteer?

Via WorldNetDaily

A few weeks ago, while out promoting my new book, “Unmasking Obama,” a fellow asked the ultimate question about Barack Obama: puppet or puppeteer?

After watching Obama slouch his way toward Election Day, drawing crowds smaller than those of even Melania Trump, I am convinced the answer is “puppet.”

In his prime, Obama generated dramatically more enthusiasm than does the corrupt and senile Joe Biden. That said, the obvious puppet Biden will likely get more votes than Obama did despite the fact that the strings can be seen from the cheap seats.

This has to depress Obama. Watching the puppeteers from the sidelines, Obama has to fear that he will be discarded after this election as casually as Buzz Lightyear was in “Toy Story 3.”

Obama liked to think he was his own man. He wasn’t. Like Biden in 2020, if not as conspicuously, Obama served his masters as a front man for the long march of global progressivism through America’s institutions.

The media failed to understand the reality of the Obama presidency in part because of their failure to understand the political transformation that occurred during Obama’s tenure in the White House.

“Liberalism,” as understood in the post-war era, died on Obama’s watch. Replacing it was “progressivism.” This was much more than a casual rebranding. If liberals could envision a harmonious future, benign and paternal, orderly and safe, progressives could not.

“Progressive,” in fact, represents the rare bit of honest branding by the left. At the risk of tautology, progressives “progress.” Like the sharks of our imagination, they move forward or they die. If old school liberals like Biden are to have any relevance, they follow, however uneasily, in the shark’s wake.

In the post-Soviet era, with no one hand guiding the international left, American progressives have moved forward on numerous fronts: black, brown, green, feminist, LGBT, Islamic, globalist and socialist.

Barack Obama led none of the left’s movements, but he enabled them all. Given his origins and his education, there was no front in the progressive march through the institutions that Barack Obama could not credibly represent. His timing was excellent.

“Intersectionality” was emerging on the left as more than just a buzzword. In theory, intersectionality meant that marginalized groups shared common oppressors and thus had common political interests.

Schooled in street-level Critical Theory, activists from various fronts were forging alliances with those in other fronts who also saw themselves as oppressed.

These activists, whether they knew it or not, would be expected to subordinate their own interests to the larger progressive cause – seizing and sustaining national power.

The emotional force that held the movement together was a shared contempt for the enemy. Movement leaders showed less interest in celebrating the many colors of their multicultural rainbow than they did in punishing those who resisted the celebration.

On Obama’s watch, and occasionally at his urging, progressives found common cause in imputing hatred to others – hatred of blacks, of gays, of transgenders, of immigrants, of Muslims, of women, of poor people, of science and, yes, of mother earth.

Read the entire article HERE.

Biden Will Confiscate All Privately Owned Weapons

Via The New American

If Joe Biden is elected president, millions of gun owners would suddenly owe taxes on weapons they already own and millions would see the Justice Department deployed to confiscate their entire arsenal.

Specifically, Biden has announced that as president he would require everyone who owns an AR-15 to register that weapon per the mandates of the National Firearms Act of 1934. That would amount to a surcharge of $200 for each AR-15 in your arsenal.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) estimates that there are at least 18 million AR-15s owned by Americans. That’s a low-ball estimate.

Do the math: That’s $3.6 billion in new taxes. It should be noted, however, that there’s no way a President Biden would stop at slapping taxes and registration requirements on AR-15s. Nope.

On his campaign website, Biden describes the Second Amendment as “limited” and boasts that if he’s elected he would:

enact legislation to once again ban assault weapons. This time, the bans will be designed based on lessons learned from the 1994 bans. For example, the ban on assault weapons will be designed to prevent manufacturers from circumventing the law by making minor changes that don’t limit the weapon’s lethality.

What happens, though, if Congress refuses to enact such sweeping, unconstitutional legislation? Biden’s got a pen! Again, from his own campaign website:

“While working to pass this legislation, Biden will also use his executive authority to ban the importation of assault weapons.”

There it is. That’s the sort of autocratic, authoritarian government we’ve seen established over the past several decades. Any time a president — of either party — doesn’t want to wait on the lawmakers to make laws, they simply take the cap off a pen and sign a decree, claiming it’s done under their “constitutional authority.”

Biden’s war on “weapons of war” won’t end there, though. He promises he will “restrict the number of firearms an individual may purchase per month to one.”

You read that right. As president, Joe Biden would not only tax the guns you already own, but he would prohibit the sale of “assault weapons” and he would restrict every American to only purchasing one weapon — one Biden-approved weapon — per month.

Biden’s gun grab will include re-enacting the requirement that the Social Security Administration and the Veterans Administration report to the federal background check system anyone who has sought treatment for mental illness.

To President Trump’s credit, this humiliating attack on veterans was one of the first federal programs he repealed upon taking office. Biden would bring it back.

If for some reason you’ve not completed your background check within 10 days, Biden would order the FBI to inform him so that he can “eliminate this occurrence.”

Read the entire article HERE.

Someone is planting ‘Racism Lives Here’ signs in lawns of Trump supporters in California

Via The Blaze

Supporters of President Donald Trump are being pranked by someone posting “Racism Lives Here” signs in their front yards as a way to criticize their political preference.

The signs popped up in front yards of Trump supporters in Coronado, California, near San Diego.

The red, white, and blue signs were designed in the style of Trump signs, but were clearly meant to insult Trump supporters.

One couple spoke to KNSD-TV about the racist sign they found in their yard. They were likely targeted because they had a Trump flag hanging at their home.

“It was sad that anybody would think that about us, first of all, just because of the flag we have, because that’s just not us,” Ken Slanie said.

“We’ve lived in Coronado since 1968,” he added. “So we’ve been here 52 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this before, where people are so divided and it’s ridiculous. Everybody, we’ve got friends that are Biden fans and friends that are Trump fans and friends of all nationalities, and I’ve never seen anything like this before in Coronado, and it’s kind of sad to see that.”

Police spokeswoman Lea Corbin told KNSD that police had investigated three homes where the unwanted signs were installed, but that there was no crime committed.

“We do not have a crime,” Corbin said in the email statement. “Simply placing a sign in another’s yard may be unwanted but [is] not a crime.”

Read the entire article HERE.

Police will enter homes and break up Christmas dinners if families break lockdown rules – and there will be riots, predicts police commissioner

Via The Daily Mail

Police chiefs have warned that Christmas family celebrations will be broken up by officers if they flout lockdown rules.

David Jamieson, the West Midlands police and crime commissioner, said officers will investigate reports of rule-breaking over the festive period.

The West Midlands are currently under Tier 2 restrictions, meaning people cannot mix with any other households or bubbles inside.

Mr Jamieson told The Telegraph: ‘If we think there’s large groups of people gathering where they shouldn’t be, then police will have to intervene. If, again, there’s flagrant breaking of the rules, then the police would have to enforce.

‘It’s not the police’s job to stop people enjoying their Christmas. However, we are there to enforce the rules that the Government makes, and if the Government makes those rules then the Government has to explain that to the public.’

The police chief also warned about the upcoming Hanukkah and Diwali celebrations which will also see families eager to gather inside, contrary to the rules in certain areas.

Read the entire article HERE.

Costco Pulls Milk Over Allegations It Was A Product Of Forced Monkey Labor

Via The Daily Caller

Costco pulled the popular Chaokoh coconut milk made in Thailand off the shelves after allegations surfaced that the company uses forced monkey labor.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) put out the findings of an investigation that found Monkeys in Thailand are kept chained, abusively trained and forced to climb trees to pick coconuts that are used to make milk and other products.

Some monkeys used in the Thai coconut business are allegedly “illegally abducted from their families and homes when they’re just babies.” Monkeys are fitted with metal collars and kept chained, reportedly not allowed to socialize with others. Monkeys are then responsible for “twisting heavy coconuts” until they fall off, all while chained to metal collars, per PETA.

Costco said “until Chaokoh stops using chained monkeys as coconut-picking machines” they will no longer purchase the milk, per the same report.

Read the entire article HERE.

Jack Dorsey Hires Homeless Man Off Streets Of San Francisco To Fill In For Him At Hearings

Via The Babylon Bee (Satire)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Jack Dorsey was summoned to the Senate’s hearing on Big Tech today, but he was tripping on acid with the spider-monkeys off the southern coast of St. Bart’s, so he quickly called up his office and had his people hire a homeless man hanging out in front of Twitter’s headquarters to fill in for him.

The hobo was holding up a sign reading “Will Go to Senate Hearing for Crack,” and Dorsey’s assistants quickly hired him for the hearing.

“Yeah, uh, censorship, I like that. That’s good stuff,” said the hobo to the confused panel. “The apocalypse is coming, man. The signs are all around us!”

“Sorry, Mr., uh, Dorsey, we were expecting a professional-looking CEO, but you’re clearly just a hobo off the streets of San Francisco,” said Senator Mike Lee. “Couldn’t you at least have taken a shower before talking to the United States Senate?”

“Hey, bro, chill out,” the hobo responded. “Don’t harsh my mellow, man. I’m doing this for a couple bags of blow and a $20, man. You suck!”

For his part, Mark Zuckerberg programmed a lookalike android to testify.

Check out all of the Bee’s takes on politics and culture HERE.

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