Thursday night, the National Football League kicked off its 2020 season. The inaugural game featured the 2020 Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs versus the Houston Texans.
But that’s not all that the NFL ‘introduced Thursday night. In addition to a good football game., the League opened what could be called a “Season of Unity”?
United against what? By appearances the League is demonstrating that it is against “social Injustice”, presumably.
The pre-game theatrics included the two teams gathering at midfield and locking arms in a dramatic ‘show of unity”.Unclear was “unity for or against what?” Some suggest, against police brutality toward Black folk, inspired by the George Floyd tragedy.
But the highlight of the pre-game festivities was the introduction of “The Black National Anthem”. It appeared to be a complement to the traditional playing of the familiar Francis Scott Key-inspired “Star Spangled Banner”, widely recognized as the “National Anthem of the United States of America”.
Some ‘boos’ were reportedly heard, apparently in response to the entire unity show.
(In order, no doubt, to put the most positive light on the evening’s festivities, the Washington Post has written this helpful “history of the “Black National Anthem”):
“The song, “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, known as the “Black national anthem”, was played more than 20 minutes before “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which was written by slaveholder Francis Scott Key and includes lyrics about the capture of escaped slaves who fought for the British during the War of 1812.
“Playing the Black national anthem is wonderful to acknowledge what Black people have been through in this country, but that doesn’t negate the racist authorship of the ‘Star Spangled Banner,’ ” said CeLillianne Green, a historian, poet, lawyer and author of the book “A Bridge: The Poetic Primer on African and African American Experiences.” “Most people don’t know what the second and third stanzas say in the national anthem and that Francis Scott Key was outraged by Black people fighting for their freedom. They hide those stanzas.”
Reflecting on the Post’s very helpful narrative above, it seems to us that what we have here, and going forth in future NFL football games is a rendition of “The White Folks’ National Anthem” and “The Black Folks’ National Anthem”…at least until the offensive nature of the former anthem can be fully rectified and only one anthem is recognized. All of course in the ‘spirit of unity’, which seemed to be the theme of Thursday night’s football contest.
Who can’t ‘lock arms’ with that?!
Yet to be decided is when the anthem that is not of your race, is played, is it required, or at least permissible, to kneel and raise your clenched fist..all, again, in the spirit of “unity”? Evidently that’s how Chiefs’ player Alex Okafor (above photo) sees it. (And, apparently, so too the lads who put their hands reverently on Mr. Okafor’s shoulders while he’s showing his “respect”.)
Haven’t seen the stats on the game yet, but no doubt somebody is keeping track to determine if the winning team had more Black players on it than the losing team.
(If not, may be somebody in the NFL has been assigned to look into that winning team’s roster and to require ‘appropriate adjustments’.)
All, of course again, in the ‘spirit of UNITY’.
Now then, there’s another thing that Commissioner Goodell needs to have the Chiefs’ management look into. The national TV audience, as noted above, heard ‘boos’ while the whole ‘tribute’ to unity and social justice theme that seemed to be the reason for the game, was proceeding.
Obviously, those boos must have come from ‘hateful white supremacists’ in the crowd. I’m sure that Mr. Goodell will want to know how they were able to get tickets for the game. After all, tickets for the Covid restricted attendance were to have gone to season ticket holders almost exclusively. Just who are the Chiefs’ season ticket holders?
It looks like it’s going to be a long season for the National Football League. dlh
Addenda — A history of the NFL on “social justice commentary” by players
Via Pastor Mark Cannon FB post —
I found this and had to repost! Some Folks Have Come to Despise the NFL. For fans who follow the sport, most of this will be a simple reminder of things you already know. For the rest, it’s a wake-up call: In 2012 the NFL had an issue with Tim Tebow kneeling before each game to pray, they also had an issue with Tebow wearing John 3:16 as part of his eye-black to avoid glare, and made him take it off.
In 2013 the NFL fined Brandon Marshall for wearing green cleats to raise awareness for people with mental health disorders.
In 2014 Robert Griffin III (RG3) entered a post-game press conference wearing a shirt that said “Know Jesus Know Peace” but was forced to turn it inside out by an NFL uniform inspector before speaking at the podium.
In 2015 DeAngelo Williams was fined for wearing “Find the Cure “eye black for breast cancer awareness.
In 2015 William Gay was fined for wearing purple cleats to raise awareness for domestic violence. (Not that the NFL has a domestic violence problem..).
In 2016 the NFL prevented the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a decal on their helmet in honor of 5 Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty.
2016 the NFL threatened to fine players who wanted to wear cleats to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11.
So tell me again how the NFL supports free speech and expression. It seems quite clear based on these facts that the NFL has taken a position against any action by NFL players demonstrating RESPECT for any issue:
For God, social causes such as mental health, cancer, domestic violence, for cops killed arbitrarily, for being cops, or for the Memory of 9/11…
BUT they will allow demonstrations of DISRESPECT for our National Flag, our National Anthem, for America , and for the American People, if it will help mollify a particular Group and its supporters. That is who and what the NFL now has shown itself to be. . . .
Beth Bauman writes at Townhall and is a fine reporter/analyst/editor. If she wrote the headline to the story linked above she either flubbed or revealed a very low politcal bar. The headline does not even match the content as no one mentioned seems to really say that.
Nevertheless we have heard such sentiment about Tulsi Gabbard before and it is as superficial, pathetic and mind-boggling when it comes from serious conservatives. What kind of party with a meaningful conservative political philosophy invites into its ranks (presumably to be used as an example) a pro-abortion, anti-Second Amendment, Bernie supporting (against Hillary), free college education, etc., etc goofball whether or not she serves in the military. Who is next, Alexander Vindman??
To be in any way an authentic Republican (if it means anything) she would have to do a 180 on so much as referenced in the collection of links below. Before that process starts perhaps she ought to resign from the military and apologize to President Donald Trump.
As an officer (currently a Major) in the Hawaii National Guard, her contemptuous remarks about President Trump, her Commander in Chief, would seem to be “conduct unbecoming” (which does not require being in uniform to effectuate a violation). If avoiding the UCMJ simply means wearing a different hat, then a whole lot of the UCMJ is meaningless. Again, check out the links below.
Gabbard’s claim never to have used “hateful rhetoric” against President Trump is not exactly a true statement and is more than a little disingenuous. You see, it was in November 2018 that Ms. Gabbard accused the president of being “Saudi Arabia’s bitch.” In April, she also called him “al-Qaeda’s big brother and protector in Syria,” in a Tweet that was highlighted by Iranian state television. And earlier Tuesday, Ms. Gabbard tweeted: Trump awaits instructions from his Saudi masters. Having our country act as Saudi Arabia’s bitch is not “‘America First.’” . . .
And finally, Ms. Gabbard goes to great pains to point out, at every opportunity, that she is an officer in the U.S. Army National Guard. That said, it is Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) that prohibits commissioned officers from using “contemptuous words” about the president — whether in uniform or out of uniform. And while Ms. Gabbard might enjoy some leeway from a military court due to the political nature of her job, to say that President Trump has betrayed the military, and to call him a “pimp” and a “bitch,” is likely a violation of the UCMJ.
Lying has been Hid’n Biden’s stock in trade his entire political career. From plagiarism to fabrications. From decades of personal prevarication to continuing to repeat lies undercut by actual testimony. From his own lying to lying about others lying*. Biden is now a guy, once a purposeful liar now a guy so diminished he is a blank slate for the calumny of others who are like Biden but are now running him. The video below documents his “embellishments” about his academic achievements.*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SjrpfCp30k
The latest lie ((caustic lye) from “Biden” is that Trump was not upfront with the American people on a timely basis. Given the changing advice from the CDC “experts” about COVID19 Trump was as forthcoming as they were, indeed showcasing them and following their recommendations and even more aggressively moving against the virus — shutting down travel from China, something Biden opposed. Even USAToday shows a time-line that while Trump shows confidence against the enemy (as a leader should) he corrects a reporter at least as early as March 30 making plain that he was trying to keep America calm.
General William Barr said he expects there will be “developments” later this summer from the ongoing federal investigation into the origins of the Russia probe, (because it has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.)
That was how the story in the N Y Post opened its June ‘report’ on the progress of the “investigation” into the Obama administration’s effort to overturn the election of Trump and undermine his administration.
So, what have we got…12 days before summer officially “ends”?
We couldn’t agree more! We watched AG Barr on Mark Levin’s show on FOX Sunday. Barr talks a good game but regardless of what John Durham, his ‘legendary’ investigator might turn up (if anything), after 19 months (and counting), it won’t matter, one way or the other. If it uncovers the massive, unprecedented criminal wrongdoing by the Obama/Biden administration and its entire law enforcement and national security apparatus, it is already too late to factor into consideration by voters in the November presidential election.
If Donald Trump is reelected, the investigation will not get the priority it should receive because the new administration will have too many other important issues to address.
If Trump is defeated in his reelection bid, whatever Barr/Durham’s investigation turned up, however vital to the future of America, will most certainly be buried by the Biden administration with the always ‘reliable’ help of the media.
Between Sara Carter’s and John Solomon’s excellent work, Durham would have only needed to verify their reports to get Grand Jury indictments! dlh
This is an excerpt of the story describing Tom Fitton’s denunciation of the investigation , its “progress” and its likely outcome:
Trump supporters are waiting with baited breath for U.S. Attorney John Durham to come out with his explosive findings in regards to his investigation into the origins of the Russian collusion probe against President Trump.
According to Judicial Watch founder Tom Fitton, Trump supporters are getting taken for a ride. Fitton said during a recent appearance on Fox Business’ “Lou Dobbs Tonight” that Barr and Durham are making no progress on investigating what very well may be the worst criminal conspiracy in U.S. history.
“You know, my concern is it’s been, what, sixteen-plus months since Durham was appointed and only now is he questioning Mr. Brennan,” Fitton said.
Fitton said that he is inclined to believe disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan when he says that he is not a person of interest in Durham’s investigation. take our poll – story continues below
“I don’t see grand juries operating. I don’t see a bunch of witnesses coming in. I don’t see lawyers complaining about their clients being brought in before Durham,” Fitton said.
He said that the Mueller investigation was run much more thoroughly than Durham’s so-called investigation, the goal of which appears to be protecting the deep state.
“You know when the government is being pressure on witnesses and subjects and that is not evident here,” Fitton said, adding that it is his opinion that Durham is “not doing the work” needed to bring deep state criminals to justice.
Fitton did not object to Dobbs’ characterization that he is calling the Durham a “sham.”
“I’ll have to tell you. I’m a little concerned that the FBI is no longer an investigative agency because if this is the way they operate, it’s going to take them decades to deal with anything of real complexity,” Dobbs said.
“Well, [FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith] wasn’t arrested but they managed to arrest Stephen Bannon. The comparison and contrasting to me is just remarkable,” Fitton responded.
Now this cartoon* packs a lot of truth about inveterate mask wearers. We do not think it pertains to the many who do so out of a job requirement or who are not in the mood at any given time to show a little defiance when walking into a store or other establishment with a mask mandate posted. However, in our experience, in 90% or more of such places we have walked into, while the clerks may have masks on, customers without masks are ignored. That is a good thing.
In the depictions below one might substitute many a Democrat (when they do not exercise liberal privilege as Nancy Pelosi and others do). There are some Republicans in the willing mask wearing mix as well . . . civic duty types (their perception) and others unfortunately of a mindset somewhat related to the descriptions imparted. (more commentary below).
We have observed many a ridiculous mask wearer — bicyclists and walkers outdoors; people alone in cars, more ill-fitting masks than not. Our hearing may not be as sharp as it once was but we think it in the average range for our age group and the muffled wa-wa-wa-wa-wa listening to mask wearers makes us want to rip the damn things off of the clerks obliged to wear them. We think them appropriate in limited circumstances and not generally (and from what we have read they are only marginally useful in those circumstances). Constant wearing by the asymptomatic we believe to be at least as risky for the individual wearing them (medical and social) as any viral health risk the masks might ameliorate.
Not only do we oppose any general mandate we do not think the governmental “recommendations” (short of mandates) are sound as health policy. Non healthcare provider businesses and non food preparation businesses that require them of all employees and patrons if they do so out of fear of liability ought to have that fear removed but should not be immune from employee action for unfair labor practices if they continue to mandate mask wearing generally because the science behind the mandates does not hold up. Freedom loving and health conscious customers ought to consider their patronage alternatives and avoid mask mandate businesses and voice their objections to the management.
In response to our call for input on how Democrats will game the voting system (they built vulnerabilities into it) we publish this forward from DK (article below).
Undercover journalism exposed Democrat plans to cheat to win in 2016. The Democrats plan to expand the program in 2020. Not merely “double down” but expand it exponentially. Mainstream media will not expose them, will instead even cover for them. Therefore it is a win win for the Marxists, taking Alinsky strategies to levels not scene since thug revolutions in Russia, Germany and Italy a hundred years ago. Cheat and win, or cheat and have your people write that the election is in doubt, or illegitimate (because the cheaters didn’t win). The revolution is at least sustained (or so the theory goes).
In mid-October 2016, while on business in New York, I swung over to New Jersey to visit with my relatives. At dinner that evening, my brother, then in in the early stages of TDS — it has since metastasized; pray for him — was gloating over Hillary’s impending victory.
I asked my brother if he were willing to bet on it. He most certainly was. He was sufficiently confident to give me 7 to 1 odds. I took it. Based on what I knew, I would have taken the bet at even money. I had inside info.
Earlier in the day, I had popped up to visit James O’Keefe at the Project Veritas offices north of the city. My timing was excellent. O’Keefe was in the middle of rolling out his “Rigging the Election” series of undercover videos.
A few days earlier, O’Keefe had released as part of the series a video recorded by the irrepressible Laura Loomer. Laura was twenty-three at the time. If there is a ballsier journalist/activist in America, I have not met him. Today, Loomer is the Republican candidate for Congress in Florida’s 21st District.
Loomer caught Alan Schulkin, a Democrat on New York’s Board of Elections, in a moment of rare candor. “I think there is a lot of voter fraud,” admitted Schulkin. “People don’t realize, certain neighborhoods in particular they bus people around to vote.” When Loomer asked him to identify the neighborhoods, Schulkin specified black, Hispanic, and Chinese.
This was not a lead the major media were prepared to follow up on. The New York Daily News attacked Project Veritas. The New York Times did its best to ignore it.
O’Keefe’s next bombshell was harder to ignore. A Project Veritas reporter had been posing as a young Democrat organizer named “Steve” in Wisconsin and gained the trust of the higher-ups, most notably Scott Foval. Foval was then deputy director of People for the American Way, an outfit founded by TV producer Norman Lear and funded by George Soros among others.
Like many campaign strategists, Foval liked to boast. He began by sharing with Steve the many ways in which Democrats move people around to affect the outcome of an election. As though speaking to an imagined Republican, Foval claimed, “Well you know what? We’ve been bussing people in to deal with you f—— a——- for fifty years and we’re not going to stop now.” Vote fraud is old news, but Foval moved into new territory: a phenomenon he called “bird-dogging.”
“You remember the Iowa State Fair thing where Scott Walker grabbed the sign out of the dude’s hand, and then the dude kind of gets roughed up right in front of the stage right there on camera?” Foval asked Steve.
“We train our people, and I work with a network of groups,” explained Foval. “We train them up on how to get themselves into a situation on tape, on camera, that we can use later.” Unwittingly, Foval was committing to video the way Democratic operatives were using their own people to foment violence at Trump rallies, for which Trump people were inevitably blamed.
“I’m saying we have mentally ill people that we pay to do shit. Make no mistake,” Foval continued. “Over the last twenty years, I’ve paid off a few homeless guys to do some crazy stuff, and I’ve also taken them for dinner, and I’ve also made sure they had a hotel and a shower, and I put them in a program. Like I’ve done that. But the reality is, a lot of people, especially, our union guys, a lot of union guys, they’ll do whatever you want. They’re rock ‘n roll.”
Foval conveniently laid out the hierarchy of the bird-dogging network. “The [Clinton] campaign pays DNC,” he told Steve. “DNC pays Democracy Partners. Democracy Partners pays The Foval Group. The Foval Group goes and executes the s— on the ground.”
Foval reported directly to Bob Creamer at Democracy Partners. “Bob Creamer is diabolical,” said Foval, “and I love him for it. I have learned so much from that man over the last twenty years, I can’t even tell you.” Bob Creamer, the husband of a Chicago-area congresswoman, had already served time for bank fraud, a useful credential for running the dirty tricks campaign against Donald Trump.
According to White House visitor logs, Creamer had made more than 340 trips to the White House while Obama was president, occasionally with Obama present at the meeting. Foval described Creamer as “the black hat” to his “white hat.”
O’Keefe sat on the Foval video for months. In the interim, through a clever and involved strategy, he and his Project Veritas team succeeded in getting a 21-year-old reporter, “Angela,” an internship at Democracy Partners. Creamer took a shine to Angela, bringing her to the DNC offices and even inviting her to the White House, which opportunity she ducked lest she get busted for entering under a false identity.
Creamer shared some of the secrets of bird-dogging with his new intern. He explained that “DREAMers” were some of their most effective troublemakers. “They’re just pros at this,” said Creamer. When Angela asked for clarification, Creamer explained, “Dreamers are the category of people brought here as children, as immigrants.” He singled out one particular individual whose “crew is spectacular at it.” For the record, these “pros” were in the country illegally. That did not seem to bother Creamer.
“So Hillary is aware of all the work that you guys do, I hope?” Angela asked. “Oh yeah,” said Creamer. “Yes. The campaign is fully in it.”
When I headed back to New Jersey that day, I knew that all this and more was about to hit the news, and it hit powerfully enough to shift the momentum. During the final Las Vegas debate, Trump did not hesitate to bring up the dirty tricks campaign Hillary and her people had orchestrated.
As I relate in my new book, Unmasking Obama, O’Keefe, Loomer, and scores of other irregular journalists did the investigative work the major media refused to during the Obama years. Their efforts ultimately paved the way to Trump’s victory.
Let me conclude with a tip: if you’re taking book on 2020, factor in some more good dope from Project Veritas.
Bandy it about extensively as “it is reported that . . .”
WELL, HOW ABOUT IT READERS? YOU WANT TO BELIEVE THE LATEST ANONYMOUS DEMOCRAT CAMPAIGN SLANDER OF PRESIDENT TRUMP?…OR, DO YOU PREFER TO BELIEVE WHAT YOUR OWN HEART KNOWS AND YOUR EYES HAVE SEEN?
General Keith Kellogg, national security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, also defended the president, saying, “The Atlantic story is completely false. Absolutely lacks merit. I’ve been by the President’s side. He has always shown the highest respect to our active duty troops and veterans with utmost respect paid to those who have given the ultimate sacrifice and those wounded in battle.”
Veterans: Give Us Your Views on This Latest Democrat/Media Hoax
What has been blasted out to the American people by the liberal media, in full support of the Democratic Party for the past several days may be, in my view, the lowest, most contemptible , dirty political campaign tactic in modern American history.
The Democrats had created ads using the lies in The Atlantic article maligning Trumps views of veterans prior to publication. Why it was almost like it was planned or something.
Constructed by the biggest contributors to the Democratic Party, in support of some of its worst (in every way) candidates, and especially to the campaign of truly, the most pitiful, pathetic presidential candidate ever put forth by a major political party in our history, this latest slander is off the contemptibility scale.
Begin with the fact that the Atlantic Magazine is a failing enterprise that not even the rich elites, the only subscribers who claim to read it, can save it.
It’s a publication owned by the wealthy widow of Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, who is described as a “billionaire philanthropist” and “mega donor” to the Biden campaign. To the Biden ‘philanthropic’ cause, “Widow Jobs” has donated over $1.2 million; She’s given ‘maxed out’ donations to countless other Dem politicians since the start of 2019. Sources say that her contributions to GOP candidates total zero!
Powell Jobs inherited a 70% stake in the Atlantic magazine in 2017. She maintains “frequent communications” with its current editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
THIS STORY HAS ALSO EXPOSED ONE OF FOX’S RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE WEEKEND ‘FOX & FRIENDS’ SHOW AND EMBARRASSED ONE OF ITS VETERAN REPORTERS
“…losers and suckers…” Uh, let’s see… “verifiedlooks like the story’s
At least to Fox News’ recent addition to its weekend morning team, “Jedediah Bila”. In addition to dismissing the significance of the apparent partisan influence on the reporting, Ms. Bila also lauded Jennifer Griffin* for her work in “verifying a part of the story”. As pointed out by F&F’s co-anchor Pete Hegseth, Griffin amateurishly cited the comments of her ‘anonymous’ sources to back up the story of Atlantic’s “anonymous” sources.
“It looks as though this is just a way to milk more money out of the idiots who fell for the earlier scandals.” Lynn Chu thinks the vets are not buying it:
“A lot of outraged military guys called in to radio shows today saying that the Obama administration treated the military with undisguised contempt and that the difference between those 8 years and these 4 is night and day. I think anyone sensible knows this is a cheesy lie. Like the Kavanagh lies.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/09/anatomy_of_another_fake_scandal.html ———- Let’s see: 1) the story that President Trump called our fallen military heroes “losers” and “suckers” was published by an incredibly partisan, shamelessly unprofessional magazine which is published by elites for elites, most of which are rich liberals.
2) It is based supposedly on the recollections, after 2 years, of some (4) “anonymous figures serving or having served in the Trump administration”.
3) the story is refuted by al least a dozen members or former members of the Trump administration, speaking ON THE RECORD!
4) Every action related to our military, taken by President Trump since he became president , has been to the benefit of the members or former members of the US military. Increased pay for military, major improvements in delivery of medical care by the VA for former military, major increases in the armed forces budget, major improvements in the readiness and training and weaponry of our military.
In every public appearance, no president has been more supportive of our military personnel than President Trump. Every action, every speech, every statement by Donald Trump has shown a deep affection for our armed forces personnel, those actively serving, its fallen heroes, and its veterans.
5) It is easy to contrast the very positive actions on behalf of our military and our service personnel by President Trump with those of his predecessor. Navy veterans and current active duty people can certainly attest to the damage the OBAMA-Biden administration did. Cuts in budget, the numerous collisions of our elite naval vessels, the diversion of scarce funds for climate change purposes (expensive ‘reusable’ fuel, at 10x the cost of conventional fuel), rewriting of regulations to accommodate social experimentation; the decrease in readiness of navy fighting vessels due to introduction of females in large numbers, reportedly followed by numerous crew vacancies due to pregnancies; elite combat units of the USMC seriously affected by changes resulting in introduction of transgender and female members, alleged to ‘improve’ unit ‘cohesiveness’. In our opinion, Obama-Biden showed its contempt for the military even in the silliest ways…rewriting at significant expense military manuals and service literature for reasons of ‘proper gender’ designation (ie. “Marine “rifle person” instead of “rifleman”, “infantry persons”, etc).
It should still rankle all serving, retired, and veteran military people that the US Marines had to surrender their weapons before being “allowed” to leave the ‘closed’ US Embassy in Yemen dlh
Broken Regulations: US Marines hold umbrellas during light rain for US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
We’ve never forgotten Obama’s use of a full-dress US Marine to hold an umbrella for the Commander-in-Chief so he wouldn’t be ‘drenched’ by a light drizzle as he gave a meaningless Rose Garden speech.
Full dress U.S.Marines ordered to hold umbrellas for “two losers”…so that Obama and friend don’t get sprinkled on?! dlh
DID YOU SAY ERDOGAN???? (That’s Obama’s ‘true friend’…not America’s!)
U.S. Embassy Marines in Yemen handed over their M-9 pistols and M-4 carbines before evacuating the chaotic country with diplomatic personnel, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
The Marines also left behind several vehicles at the airport in the capital city of Sanaa before departing on a civilian flight, said Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.
Warren said the Marines destroyed their machine guns and other crew-served weapons before leaving the Embassy for the airport. He also said that it was unclear who now had custody of the weapons and vehicles that were surrendered. A Marine spokesman could not immediately say whether the surrender of weapons by Embassy Marines in an evacuation was unprecedented.
The Marines “destroyed their crew served weapons. They left their personal weapons behind,” Warren said, but he could not say whether the Houthi rebels who have taken over much of the country now had the weapons and vehicles left by the Marines.
—— * A former senior Trump administration official confirmed some of the report to Fox News National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin, while other Fox News sources have disputed other claims in the article. Griffin’s source revealed that the president called the Vietnam War a “stupid war” and that anyone who went was a “sucker.”
Yours truly will not have access to a computer until Monday so no further posts until then unless dlh gets in some comments on events of the day. In the mean time readers are encouraged to hypothesize about what can go wrong with reliance on mail for voting (either universal vote by mail or its first cousin the push for absentee voting). Reflect on the nation at large or certain states but in particular Iowa. If I can borrow someone’s computer I will post an item or two. Happy Labor Day!!!
Of course Nancy could not be expected to know or operate by the rules
But please, if anyone can be mandated to wear a mask, let it be her
Nancy strutt’n her stuff. Liberals don’t need to walk the walk they require of others. Spreading her germs to a desperate hairdresser. Maybe a mask would have given her deniability
Mary Margaret Olohan San Francisco salon owner Erica Kious said Thursday that it is “beyond shameful” for Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to accuse Kious of setting her up.
“For the speaker of the House of the United States to go on TV and falsely claim she was set up and publicly defame me and send out PR firms to spin more lies about Jonathan in support of the speaker’s own lies is bad enough,” Kious said on a Thursday evening press call to reporters.
“But for Speaker Pelosi to frame herself as a victim,” she continued, “under a total false narrative, while small businesses and workers all over California, the state, she represents in Congress, suffer and struggle just to survive, is beyond shameful.” (RELATED: San Francisco Mayor Says It Is ‘Unfortunate’ Pelosi Salon Incident Has ‘Blown Up,’ Blames Trump)
Kious provided Fox News with security footage showing a wet-haired Pelosi walking through eSalon in San Francisco on Monday at 3:08 p.m. as she attended her appointment for a wash and blow-out. San Francisco hair salons have been closed since March and were permitted to open Sept. 1 for outdoor hair appointments only.
Pelosi responded to backlash over the footage by saying she was a victim of a set up.
The salon owner said that Pelosi contacted Jonathan DeNardo, an independent contractor who rents a chair in eSalon, and asked if he could provide a hair service at her private residence. DeNardo informed Pelosi that this was not possible, according to Kious, and instead offered to perform the service at the salon.
“I have nothing to do with this and have never approved or rejected any particular client or service at the salon,” she said, adding that Jonathan “did not call me to seek authorization to do Mrs. Pelosi’s care. The appointment has already been made by him.”
She said that DeNardo did call her to express his excitement about cutting Pelosi’s hair, during which call she told him that if Pelosi “came to the salon and felt safe doing so, he should speak to her about trying to get other salons to open everywhere.”
This suggestion upset DeNardo, she said, who told her that Pelosi had bigger things to worry about. DeNardo later apologized to her, she added.
“Jonathan actually texted me and conveyed that he did have a discussion with her about not only not being allowed to open to do hair inside the salon,” Kious said. “Not only was the speaker fully aware that salons were closed for such services, but she and Jonathan actually discussed that fact during her appointment. The speaker’s excuse that she was set up is false.”
Kious repeatedly emphasized that if anyone set up Pelosi, it could only have been DeNardo, but also emphasized that she does not believe DeNardo set up the speaker of the house and that Pelosi has made him the scapegoat of the situation.
“I don’t owe anyone an apology,” Kious said with emotion. “Mrs. Pelosi owes the entire country an apology.”
Pelosi did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Biden gives interview to perpetrator of probably the single most vile song in the rap music genre, a high bar, a chart topper
Extreme language warning – lyrics posted
MAYBE THE DEMOCRATS HAVE THEIR CAMPAIGN SONG
Biden’s daughter (shown upper left giggling) is a big fan of Cardi B shown in clip from latest music video for her chart topping rap song “WAP”
I had heard the name “Cardi B’ but that was about it. As I understood it, she was something of a female rap star. I saw part of her “interview” with the Sleepy One. Then Tucker Carlson mentioned her on his show and suggested if one wants to learn more about “Cardi B” they might look up the lyrics to her newest ‘big hit’, “WAP”.
He suggested that, as an entertainer, she may not be the most wholesome personality out there.
I recalled when the Obamas were into Rap stars and their “music”: and the performers they invited to the White House, seemed not to be too terribly “wholesome”. In fact the lyrics in many of their biggest ‘hits’ were not merely ‘suggestive’, but downright pornographic in some instances, and, the individuals were not the kind of people a sensible parent would encourage their teen and pre-teen daughters or sons to admire and emulate. We recounted the Obams’s exemplary parenthood
And so, I checked out the latest Democratic party “leader’s” newest celebrity ‘thought leader’.
It was easy enough to do.
Then-putative nominee Biden agreed to a “tough” interview with one of show biz’s leading ‘intellectuals’…who else but? Cardi B !
Below, following a review of the lyrics in Cardi B’s latest hit song, “Wap!”, is a recap of the interview.
Like me, I’m sure you’ll be impressed by Ms. B’s grasp of the issues facing the president in the next four years. And the would be ‘president’ is his usual keen mind with the quick quip. (President Trump was criticized by some of his more rabid critics for a song introductory to his address at the Whirlpool plant in Clyde, O….”Live and Let Die”.)
For the Biden campaign it looks like “Wap’ is a great selection for each of his ‘virtual’ basement campaign speeches…maybe with a steady “wap, wap” in the background.
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Maybe one will recall when Trump, in a private conversation, which was secretly taped, long before he announced his candidacy for president, engaged in what he termed a ‘locker room exchange’, rather ‘lightheartedly’ used the term “grab’em by the p—y”?
People were shocked…and we might add, ‘appalled”…especially LIBERAL folks! People like Alyssa Milano, like Julia-Louis Dreyfus, and, THE “nasty woman”, Ashley Judd!
And, now…”The Song”: “WAP” (WAP is the three first letters of the song’s “topic” …a hint: the first word is ‘Wet’)Warning: This Ain’t Rogers and Hammerstein ! (Lyrics are as they are in the song; we did not attempt to edit for universal consumption…so this is a ‘rough’ adult read…be on notice.) dlh
“WAP” lyrics
I said, certified freak Seven days a week Wet ass pussy Make that pull-out game weak
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, you fucking with some wet ass pussy Bring a bucket and a mop for this wet ass pussy Give me everything you got for this wet ass pussy
Beat it up, nigga, catch a charge Extra large and extra hard Put this pussy right in your face Swipe your nose like a credit card Hop on top, I wanna ride I do a Kegel while it’s inside Spit in my mouth, look in my eyes This pussy is wet, come take a dive Tie me up like I’m a surprise Let’s role play, I wear a disguise I want you to park that big Mack Truck Right in this little garage Make it cream, make me scream Out in public, make a scene I don’t cook, I don’t clean But let me tell you how I got this ring
Gobble me, swallow me Drip down inside of me Quick jump out ‘fore you let it get inside of me I tell him where to put it, never tell him where I’m ’bout to be I run down on him ‘fore I have a nigga running me Talk yo shit, bite yo lip Ask for a car while you ride that dick You really ain’t never gotta fuck him for a thang He already made his mind up ‘fore he came Now get your boots and your coat For this wet ass pussy He bought a phone just for pictures Of this wet ass pussy Pay my tuition just to kiss me On this wet ass pussy Now make it rain if you wanna See some wet ass pussy
Look, I need a hard hitter, I need a deep stroker I need a Henny drinker, I need a weed smoker Not a garden snake, I need a king cobra With a hook in it, hope it lean over He got some money, then that’s where I’m headed Pussy A1, just like his credit He got a beard, well, I’m tryna wet it I let him taste it, now he diabetic I don’t wanna spit, I wanna gulp I wanna gag, I wanna choke I want you to touch that little dangly dang That swang in the back of my throat My head game is fire, punani Dasani It’s going in dry and it’s coming out soggy I ride on that thang like the cops is behind me I spit on his mic and now he tryna sign me, woo!
Your honor, I’m a freak bitch, handcuffs, leashes Switch my wig, make him feel like he cheating Put him on his knees, give him something to believe in Never lost a fight, but I’m looking for a beating In the food chain, I’m the one that eat ya If he ate my ass, he’s a bottom feeda Big D stands for big demeanor I could make you bust before I ever meet ya If it don’t hang, then he can’t bang You can’t hurt my feelings, but I like pain If he fuck me and ask, “Whose is it?” When I ride the dick, I’ma spell my name
Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, you fucking with some wet ass pussy Bring a bucket and a mop for this wet ass pussy Give me everything you got for this wet ass pussy
Now from the top, make it drop That’s some wet ass pussy Now get a bucket and a mop That’s some wet ass pussy I’m talking WAP, WAP, WAP That’s some wet ass pussy Macaroni in a pot That’s some wet ass pussy
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And, here’s the recap of THE INTERVIEW:
“Biden … told Cardi B one of the things he most admires about her “is that you keep talking about what I call equity—decency, fairness, and treating people with respect.”
Cardi B has talked with presidential candidates in the past and she recently flexed her political muscles again when she joined Joe Biden for an ELLE Magazine interview. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate engaged in a wide-ranging conversation with the music star and activist about the issues that matter most to her.
To start off the Zoom interview, Biden told Cardi B that they may be related — his daughter used to call him “Joey B” growing up. After Cardi greeted Biden’s daughter, Ashley, the interview took a serious turn.
Biden asked Cardi B about the issues that interest her in this election, and her list was extensive. The rapper, whose real name is Belcalis Almánzar, said first she wants President Trump out, citing his handling of the coronavirus pandemic as one issue. (scroll down for more of the interview)
Cardi B Talks Police Brutality, COVID-19, and the 2020 Election with Joe Biden | ELLE by ELLE on YouTube
“And also what I want is free Medicare,” she said. “It’s important to have free [health care] because look what is happening right now. Of course, I think we need free college. And I want Black people to stop getting killed and no justice for it. I’m tired of it. I’m sick of it.” She said she wants “laws that are fair to Black citizens and that are fair for cops, too. If you kill somebody who doesn’t have a weapon on them, you go to jail. You know what? If I kill somebody, I’ve got to go to jail. You gotta go to jail, too. That’s what I want.” Biden responded by saying, “There’s no reason why we can’t have all of that,” and he stressed the importance of presidents taking responsibility, leveling with the American people and telling the truth.
Biden urged young vote to turn out and vote, saying that if more 18- to 24-year-olds had voted in 2016, Hillary Clinton would have been president instead of Donald Trump. Joe Biden “The vote matters,” Biden said. “That’s why you keep talking to people about the need to vote. Your generation can own what happens in the next election. They can change things dramatically if they show up and vote.”
During the Zoom conversation, the two bonded over being parents. Biden, who is 77, noted that he had four kids and five grandchildren. Cardi B, who is 27, has a 2-year-old daughter with her husband, fellow rapper Offset.
She brought up her concern about the lack of after-school programs for kids, saying programs she grew up with are now disappearing from her neighborhood. “I’m the guy that put in those after-school programs,” Biden said. “I was able to get $20 billion [for] more boys and girls clubs.” He blamed the loss of such programs on people not wanting to pay taxes to support them.
Biden also told Cardi B one of the things he most admires about her “is that you keep talking about what I call equity—decency, fairness, and treating people with respect.” “John Lewis, one of the great civil rights leaders, used to say the vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool you have,” Biden said. He spoke of the civil rights movement, and how people are again demanding racial justice and change.
Cardi B said the demand for change is simple: “I feel like Black people, we’re not asking for sympathy, we’re not asking for charity—we are just asking for equality. We are asking for fairness, and we are asking for justice. That is all. I feel like everything people are asking for is getting interpreted in a very different way. No, it’s simple: We just want justice. We want to feel like America.”
Biden praised the younger generation, saying they are the “smartest, the best educated, the least prejudiced, and the most engaged generation in history.”
“Look what they’re seeing now with this president. He’s promoting hatred, prejudice, racism. Talking about protecting the Confederate flag when Mississippi takes it off their flag,” Biden said. “This is all about the game of making people hate each other. Because that’s how he wins, by dividing us. Your generation is changing it.”
Cardi B said prejudice is dangerous and “could be the start of a civil war.”
“Everybody just wants the best for themselves, their future, their kids’ future. I don’t want to [have] to tell my kid, ‘You have to be careful going to the store. Don’t wear a hoodie. Please don’t get stopped.’ We don’t want that,” she said.
Earlier in the primary season, Cardi B was a prominent supporter of Bernie Sanders, but once Biden ascended to the top of the Democratic field she came out and endorsed him. Celebrities who support Joe Biden for president one of the issues she focuses on most — and one her fans are concerned with — is the need for free college. The rapper opened up about her own education and the struggle to transition from high school to college.
“I’m from New York, and when you’re in high school or middle school, they give you a free MetroCard for you to be able to get to your school, and they gave me free lunch,” she said. “When I was in college, I didn’t get any more [free] transportation. So I had to get a job, because I needed $5 every single day to be able to go from Washington Heights to Chambers Street. And I had to feed myself.”
The rapper said some days she had to wait until she got home to eat, because she was able to afford lunch. “I was starving, and I felt so discouraged,” she said. “So I just feel like that is so important, to finance students while they’re in college.”
Biden told Cardi B that if he is elected president, he’ll push for families that make less than $125,000 to get free education. When the rapper asked if that would actually happen, the candidate said, “Absolutely, positively.” “Just check me out; I’ve never broken my word. Never in my life,” Biden said. First published on August 17, 2020 / 11:31 AM
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A report on Cardi B’s newest hit “song” and comment from “LifeSiteNews”:
——August 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — I’m quite aware that hip-hop and rap lyrics have long been sexually explicit and vulgar. And I’m quite aware that, already in 1968, the Beatles were singing “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?” But when the latest #1 song is too vulgar even to quote, and when you realize it will be sung by millions of young children, it’s time to say, “Enough! We really need a gospel-based moral and cultural revolution.”
Back in 2017, when Cardi B, the rapper and former stripper, began to skyrocket in fame, she said, “I realized, after Halloween, a lot of little girls, they be looking up to me. They love me, and I’m thinking to myself, like, ‘yo, I really need to be a better example.’” At that point, she had 12 million Instagram followers. Today she has 72 million. How many of them are “little girls”?
She continued, “But I be trying to be a better example, though, you know what I’m saying? I’ve been trying to be more PG-13, less rated R. But I be hanging out with my hood rat friends and then they [expletive] me up all over again.”
Based on her latest hit, which she performed together with Megan Thee Stallion, who is also known for salacious lyrics, it would appear that she was hanging out with her “hood rat friends” again. The results are virtually unquotable in a family friendly environment.
Yet there is no doubt that little girls are singing along and dancing along to the filthy lyrics, even if they don’t have the slightest idea what the words mean. As for the tens of millions who celebrate the song, they are a picture of just how depraved our culture has become.
Yes, this is the same Cardi B who is currently enjoying a new hit single with co-rapper Megan Three Stallions called “Wet A** P**sy.”
Not even kidding. This is who was permitted to interview the Democratic Party’s 2020 nominee for president.
The same people who rail on President Trump’s alleged ‘absurdities.’ The same people who claim to be ‘offended’ by things President Trump says. The same people who wax indignant at his expressions, his way of speaking, his mannerisms.
They just let their presidential nominee be ‘interviewed’ by a foul-mouthed 27-year-old rapper whose current hit single is a little diddy about a woman’s sexual organ.
That’s significant because we’re less than three months away from what many Americans view as the most important elections in our history, and voters essentially have no idea what Biden’s agenda is.
How will he help the U.S. economy rebound to its pre-coronavirus levels? What are his foreign policy objectives? Does he have a plan to address the rising rates of crime in our biggest cities?
Other than ‘vote for me because I’m not Donald Trump,’ why should Americans cast their ballots for Biden?
We don’t know.
The Cardi B interview is also significant because it wasn’t really an ‘interview’ in the normal sense. It was…vacuous. It was devoid of substance. It reminded me of a teenager talking to her grandfather about her life’s ambitions. And frankly, Biden looked like he was…somewhere else.
Susan Collins notwithstanding
Lying has been Hid’n Biden’s stock in trade his entire political career. From 
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