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Joe Biden Smacks Down Roy Cooper

Those of us who watched the bloodbath debate last night were astonished at various points. One of these critical moments occurred when Joe Biden attempted to create the impression that President Trump had damaged the economy by shutting it down in response to COVID-19. The implication was that Trump should not have done this; and that Biden would not have.

There were problems with this particular line of attack on at least a couple of levels. But let's take it at face value for right now.

Daniel Horowitz points out that Biden was effectively rebuking all the democratic socialist governors and mayors who had instituted lockdowns of various types. One of these, of course, is Roy Cooper in North Carolina.

The policies put in place by Cooper, Mandy Cohen and Josh Stein to lock down the state have been downright imbecilic-- if we accept the premise that they were not politically motivated exercises in raw power.

In recent weeks, we learned that many of the reported positive tests are not clinically significant because only minimal levels of virus or virus fragments, incapable of infecting anyone, are being detected.  We also learned from the CDC that case fatality rates have been extraordinarily low for the vast majority of demographics. Of course, we knew these things months ago, but even fewer people were listening back then. We also have learned that many people are being hurt badly by the lockdowns-- suicides, overdoses, etc.-- and yet the lockdowns failed to deliver any significant health benefit.

Yet, even now we still witness the reflexive shutdown of schools if cases are discovered, and the extreme reluctance to open schools in the first place.

Joe Biden proclaimed last night that HE is the Democratic Party. If he was being truthful last night, then Roy Cooper is defying the party line. Of course, that seems ridiculous. 

But nonetheless...

 

The Real History of Confederate Monuments, and Why it is Wrong to Remove Them

This awesome video explains why it is entirely appropriate for the Alamance County Sheriff, and that county's commissioners, to protect the Confederate monument in Graham:

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We Need to Decommission Governor Cooper

The World We Lost, and the One That Awaits

Wayne Allensworth, Chronicles:

The world I knew then, and recall with such fondness, is irretrievably gone. My neighborhood and the surrounding areas were like a warm cocoon, a web of interlocking relationships, of cousins, aunts, uncles, friends, neighbors, all who shared their lives with an easy working class charm.

I seem to have found myself in a weird, autumnal world, a forever autumn in which so many of us know very well what has been lost, but remain stubbornly reluctant to face that. Ozzy and Harriet aren’t coming to save us. They’ve been canceled.

How to explain the sense of loss, the longing I feel, to my children, now grown? They don’t remember that world. They can’t. All they have is me and their mother and older relatives to counteract the propaganda they have been bombarded with, try as we might to protect them, all their lives.

My America was no hellhole of oppression. Imperfect as she was, the old America looks all the better in retrospect. An old friend. A reassuring elder. Something personal and real, not an abstraction in any sense.

I miss her.

What’s happening right now is more terrible than any imagined war of the worlds, as the battle lines are not clearly drawn, the front invisible. It’s partly a war of people, partly a war of ideas, partly a war of information and disinformation, a strange hybrid war it is.

We’ll have to keep our heads about us.  The worst is undoubtedly yet to come.  Our enemies are planning for the disorder that will surely follow the election in November, and the resistance—the real resistance of the American remnant—has yet to fully find itself.

What to do? All of us who are aware of the crisis and what it means are taking steps to ready ourselves, and are trying to warn others of what lies ahead...

Old habits die hard, and the hardest habit of all has proven to be flyover country’s deep attachment to the old America, a good thing in itself that can become dangerous. Dangerous, that is, if we fail to recognize and accept certain realities.

The rout of our civilization began a long time ago. 1914? Earlier? What we call “the '60s” was but one phase in a longer crisis that has not yet played itself out, but may be reaching its culmination. The reluctance to acknowledge that the old America is gone, along with the cultural norms we took for granted, has become a weight we can no longer bear. We have to rid ourselves of such illusions in order to see clearly what we are faced with, and then, attempt to formulate a strategy to fight back. 

This is far from the counsel of despair, but is, rather, a necessary prerequisite to building something new that can realistically serve the interests of our people. The American core, Middle Americans, Legacy Americans, Heritage Americans, whichever of those we may finally settle on as a name for ourselves, existed prior to the Constitution, now largely ignored, or the United States of America, and it can survive the decline of both of them.  

What we can hope for is the eventual gelling of a currently inchoate Middle American resistance, opening the door for an authentic right to replace the false one that misled us for so long. And that will mean scrapping the entire edifice of “conservative” boilerplate, and engaging in a re-evaluation of what and who we are, where we came from, and what we stand for.

The “new normal” of riots (also known as “mostly peaceful protests”) protected and encouraged by state officials, school and church shootings, government imposed lockdowns, sexual license and perversity, the weird transvaluation of all values—patriotism is bad, loyalty a curse, attachment something to be jettisoned—and the disorienting fragmentation, the loss of decent manners, the slovenly disregard of any sense of decorum, are dreadful phenomena we all take for granted now. We pretend that it’s all somewhere out there, but not here and now. That’s how the nihilists win...

I can try and explain that to my young relations, and will, however much an uphill climb it may be. Correcting the distorted view of “history” taught by the “educators” of Year Zero is a good beginning. Then maybe we begin explaining some things that once didn’t need explaining—like the differences between the sexes (spare me the “gender” thing), or that you can have absolute equality or you can have freedom, but you can’t have both, or that our people are a nation like any other, not simply placeholders in an “experiment.”

My grown children, and lots of others besides, don’t have long to get ready. 

The answers to the questions of who we are, what the stakes are, and whose side one is on is unfolding on our streets right now.  I fully expect the presidential election to disintegrate into chaos.  The enemies of “deplorable” Middle Americans are even now preparing to take measures to win come what may, even to stage a coup.

As Trotsky once supposedly said, you may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. 

 

Sponsors of Televised Debates in NC Willfully Block Out Third Party Candidates

I heard through the grapevine about the Tillis/Cunningham debate a couple of nights ago. I am told that Tillis came out in favor of a path to citizenship for illegals and copious deficit spending. But he could not bring himself to oppose face mask mandates when the question was posed.

Cunningham, of course, is a not-so-closeted Marxist. No surprise there. But Tillis' profile in the United States Senate has been that of a center-left moderate. The viewer of the debates therefore was exposed to a fairly narrow range of political thought, and a very confined choice. There was no conservative or constitutionist presented as an option.

These debates, often sponsored by TV stations, are designed to keep the discussion within that narrow range.

Let's compare it to a football field. The game is mostly played between the left's 40 yard line and the right's 5 yard line.

The debate sponsors don't want the general public exposed to other than the usual range of establishment views, which is tending to skew further left every year.

In the North Carolina gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races, we have candidates for the Libertarian Party and the Constitution Party. They are kept off the debate stage by the media and the two establishment parties. The general public therefore does not benefit from hearing another point of view even though these parties have done everything required to attain ballot access. The Green Party does not have candidates for these races in November.

The only conservative/constitutional candidate in the US Senate race is Kevin Hayes. If he had been permitted to participate earlier this week, the contrast with Tillis would have been obvious.

And the only gubernatorial candidate committed to fighting for the constitutional order is Al Pisano. He doesn't offer the pasty, milquetoast version of conservatism we often see.

The general public ought to hear these men in the debates. But they also ought to hear the Libertarian candidates, who often have a strong perspective regarding limited government and the proper federal role.

Otherwise, we are witnessing a game played between the home 40 yard line and the visiting 5. And the two major parties, causing our country to spiral toward perdition, are perpetuated by the media at the expense of providing real choices to the public.

The Socialists' Plans for November

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Corrupt Media: Trump's Call to Reopen NC, and Voter Fraud

One of the methods that the corrupt media utilizes to inject bias into their coverage of the news is the failure to report certain stories.

A great example is the recent Trump rally in Forsyth County. The president made it a point repeatedly to emphasize how important it was to re-open the state of North Carolina. This was probably the most newsworthy part of his rally. And yet, the regional media saw fit to refrain from emphasizing this important part of his message. One notable exception was Spectrum's local news.

It was fairly dramatic to have a president, in front of a national audience, openly chastising our governor, and calling him out for his wrongful handling of the pandemic. But the media decided this was something to cover up.

A second example is the matter of voter fraud and the 2020 election.

It seemed like only yesterday that the regional media exulted and made an example of Mark Harris when his congressional campaign engaged in ballot harvesting. The various lefty voices on Facebook celebrated, and indicated this was an indication that Republicans participate in more voter fraud than the Democrats. They talked about how awful ballot harvesting was.

This year, they have flipped their script completely. Now, ballot harvesting is the socialists' national election strategy. And they have advanced multiple efforts to enable widespread fraud-- voting by mail, manipulation of deadlines, elimination of voter ID, hiring of a massive legal army anticipating widespread litigation, etc.

The media observes and fails to note a grand design, a wider pattern. They refuse to acknowledge the party's longstanding history of shady tactics on election day and thereafter. And thus, the effort is not recognized and described and reported accurately. But the Mark Harris matter was a major story.

It is sometimes astonishing how brazen the media can be.

Voter Fraud is Real, and Mail-In Voting is a Mistake