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Biden’s Speech: Told by an Idiot, Full of Sound and Fury

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Biden’s Speech: Told by an Idiot, Full of Sound and Fury

President Joe Biden’s speech in Chicago on Monday night reveals the true nature of today’s Democratic Party. As the world now knows, he obviously had no concept of anything being done in his name over the past four years. Instead, his presidency was a joint project of his longtime advisers, important Democratic constituencies, his vice president, and that nice Filipino lady who helps him to the commode several times a day.

That’s the only explanation for why this aggressively moderate Democrat presided over the most left-wing administration in U.S. history. The committee actually running the government managed to push through nearly everything on progressives’ wish list: fully open borders; 66% of judicial nominees women, and 66% minorities; the first transgender Cabinet member; student loan forgiveness; a major clamp-down on oil production, and on and on.

So what did the id of the Democratic Party have to say for itself the other night?

Biden began with the lie he’s been repeating since announcing for president in 2019: that Donald Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people.” This yarn has just surpassed “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as the most debunked hoax in all of recorded history.

What Trump actually said is on videotape. Could somebody on Biden’s staff look it up? For the 8 millionth time, Trump said:

“You had people — and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. OK? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.

Biden’s entire presidency is based on this lie. Despite having run for president about 47 times before, he says the only reason he ran in 2020 was because Trump called Nazis “very fine people.”

What kind of sociopath repeats the same lie, in defiance of video evidence, for five years?

The kind of sociopath whose followers know he’s lying and don’t care, also known as “joyous warriors.” (Also, mere simpletons.)

Biden boasted of the amazing things he’s accomplished as president, starting with: “COVID no longer controls our lives.”

You know who else can gloat about that exact same accomplishment? Russian President Vladimir Putin. North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. Uganda’s president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa.

This is like bragging that no hurricanes hit New York for the past four years because of your leadership.

In a surprise move, Biden claimed, “We’re providing affordable high-speed internet for every American no matter where they live, unlike, not unlike what Roosevelt did with electricity.”

Oops! Despite allocating $42 billion to the project, the Biden administration has not connected one single home to the internet. Did the Biden Presidency Committee read his speech before wheelbarrowing him onto the convention stage? Maybe ix-nay on the ighspeed-hay internet-way.

Delusionally, Biden said, “Trump continues to lie about crime in America like everything else. Guess what? On his watch, the murder rate went up 30%, the biggest increase in history.”

Yes — entirely because of the hell unleashed on the country after the death of George Floyd, Peace Be Upon Him. Which party was inciting the BLM riots, again? Take all the time you need.

— It’s Trump’s fault that the Democratic Party and media helpers responded to Floyd’s death by whipping BLM and antifa into a murderous rage.

— It’s Trump’s fault that Biden’s own vice president — and the Democrats’ current nominee for president — contributed to a Minnesota bail fund for the rioters.

— It’s Trump’s fault that the Democrats’ nominee for vice president, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, intentionally allowed Minneapolis to burn for four days before sending in the National Guard.

The Democratic Party is either brain-dead or just hopes most voters are.

Biden continued: “Now, the murder rate is falling faster than any time in history. Violent crime has dropped to the lowest level in more than 50 years.”

It’s at least counterintuitive that crime decreased under the party that hates cops, wants to defund the police and refuses to prosecute criminals. In fact, it’s a bald-faced lie.

Biden is referring to FBI crime reports that even the FBI says are meaningless. Because of a glitch in reporting over the past few years, the bureau is missing crime reports from about a third of the country, including peaceful little burgs like New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. When you exclude crimes from one-third of the country, you will end up with fewer crimes. That’s a government screw-up, not a statistic.

For the real numbers, Biden could check with his own Department of Justice. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), violent crime has skyrocketed under his administration.

Biden also trotted out the Democrats’ favorite witticism that was a bad joke five minutes after it launched: “Crime will keep coming down when we put a prosecutor in the Oval Office instead of a convicted felon.”

As everyone knows by now, when Harris was California’s attorney general, she tricked voters into supporting Propositions 47 and 57, legalizing most felonies and releasing thousands of violent criminals from prison. It was her job to give the propositions titles and descriptions, so she lied. And that’s how the Democrats turned the most beautiful state in the Union into an open-air latrine for the criminally insane.

Testifying to the sterling character of Harris and her husband, Biden said, “The ancient Greeks taught us that character is destiny. Character is destiny. For me and Jill, we know Kamala and Doug are people of character.”

Not to be a stickler, but Doug cheated on his first wife with his kids’ nanny and got her pregnant, while Kamala had an open affair with a married man, Willie Brown.

Someone at the Biden Brain Trust might want to do a Google search on the word “character.”

            COPYRIGHT 2024 ANN COULTER

Proposed Deal With the MAGA Base

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Oct. 15, 2016: Hillary Clinton Builds $150 Million War Chest, Doubling Donald Trump

Nov. 9, 2017: Entire World Media: “OOPS.”

But who can remember something that happened eight years ago?

In other big news for the 100% monomaniacally pro-Harris media, this past Tuesday night, a group called Republicans for Harris held an online rally. It sounded fantastic. Their big “get” was former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, and it’s believed that as many as 10 Republicans participated in the Zoom call.

I described this in my 2016 book, “In Trump We Trust”:

“THE BUSH FAMILY COLLAPSES; A NATION REJOICES

“To stop Trump, Republican apparatchiks will form ‘Republicans for Integrity,’ with Christie Todd Whitman, Colin Powell, and the great-nephew of some Republican like Dwight Eisenhower. … The ad will show members of Republicans for Integrity, looking directly into the camera and finishing one another’s sentences … The New York Times will hail their courage. MSNBC will proclaim the ad a game-changer. …

“[O]nce Trump had sewn up the Republican nomination, Jeb!, his ex-president father and brother refused to support the party’s nominee.”

It’s kind of pathetic to have Trump’s GOP opposition go from the Bush family (according to the Times, Jeb! was “revered among party veterans”!) to … Adam Kinzinger. (Sen. Lindsey Graham was also a Never-Trumper but did a complete turnaround once he realized Trump was only kidding about the wall.)

The upshot is, there’s nothing new and no one knows anything.

At this moment of uncertainty, it’s time to make a deal with the MAGA base.

If Trump loses again this year, it will be the fourth election in a row he’s sabotaged for the GOP — five, if we count the Georgia runoffs in 2020, which I do. To paraphrase the great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, five generations of imbecilic losses are enough.

Any other Republican could have beaten the Democrats’ pro-criminal, pro-illegal, pro-Hamas, anti-civilization Dream Team this year. But despite being denied the pleasure of watching Gov. Ron DeSantis debate Joe Biden’s Border Czar, we’re voting for Trump anyway. We’d vote for Zippy the Chimp over Mao and Fidel.

     But this is the last @#$%^&* time. In exchange for the votes of those of us who noticed that Trump didn’t build a wall, deport “Dreamers,” jettison the carried interest loophole or end the anchor baby scam (etc.), leaving us with nothing but Trump’s charming personality, you’re agreeing to never run him for president again.

The dead bodies are piling up on Fifth Avenue. Next time, vote for DeSantis, idiots.

     COPYRIGHT 2024 ANN COULTER

Vacation

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I’ll be traveling for two weeks, so won’t be able to do much. I will post things occasionally.

Tim Walz and the Jews

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How a progressive boot camp founded by Jews helped Tim Walz become a politician

As a senator, Wellstone was widely viewed as a dedicated progressive who was pro-Israel, positions that, at the time, were not considered to be in tension. He was also a regular contributor to Tikkun, a dovish progressive Jewish magazine. At the time of his death, he was running against another Jewish challenger, Norm Coleman, who succeeded him. Coleman, in turn, lost to Jewish Democrat Al Franken in 2008.

Wellstone Action, founded shortly after Wellstone’s death, became a key stop for many Democrats looking to make inroads in state politics. Other program alums include Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan — who, in fact, trained Walz in 2005 before later becoming his top deputy. (If Harris and Walz win in November, Flanagan would become the first Native American female governor in US history.)

The year after he completed the program, Walz became Camp Wellstone’s first successful alum at the federal level when he was elected to Congress. In 2018 he won election to the governorship, nearly six years before Vice President Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate.

Democratic presidential nominee US Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speak at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, August 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

David Wellstone has remained close friends with Walz through the intervening years, and said the governor “comes out of the Wellstone mold of how do you run campaigns, which is connecting with people.”

He added that he believes Walz — who beat out Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor, Josh Shapiro, in the veepstakes — would be “eminently fair” on issues of concern to American Jews. Walz has other connections to the state’s Jewish community and wrote his master’s thesis on Holocaust education.

Lauded by former students, Tim Walz wrote his master’s thesis on Holocaust education

Before entering politics, the Minnesota governor was a beloved teacher with focus on genocide studies; participated in US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s first conference for educators

… But it’s clear that how to teach the Holocaust well has occupied Walz for decades. In 1993, while teaching in Nebraska, he was part of an inaugural conference of US educators convened by the soon-to-open US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Eight years later, after moving to Minnesota, he wrote a thesis arguing for changes in Holocaust education. And as governor, he backed a push to mandate teaching about the Holocaust in Minnesota schools.

Through it all, Walz modeled and argued for careful instruction that treated the Holocaust as one of multiple genocides worth understanding.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz applauds Holocaust survivor Dora Zaidenweber, then 99, at the annual event of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas in June, 2023. (Darrell Owens via JTA)

“Schools are teaching about the Jewish Holocaust, but the way it is traditionally being taught is not leading to increased knowledge of the causes of genocide in all parts of the world,” Walz wrote in his thesis, submitted in 2001.

The thesis was the culmination of Walz’s master’s degree focused on Holocaust and genocide education at Minnesota State University, Mankato, which he earned while teaching at Mankato West. His 27-page thesis, which JTA obtained, is titled “Improving Human Rights and Genocide Studies in the American High School Classroom.”

In it, Walz argues that the lessons of the “Jewish Holocaust” should be taught “in the greater context of human rights abuses,” rather than as a unique historical anomaly or as part of a larger unit on World War II. “To exclude other acts of genocide severely limited students’ ability to synthesize the lessons of the Holocaust and the ability to apply them elsewhere,” he wrote.

He then took a position that he noted was “controversial” among Holocaust scholars: that the Holocaust should not be taught as unique but used to help students identify “clear patterns” with other historical genocides like the Armenian and Rwandan genocides.

Turley on Free Speech in the UK

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In Mark Gullick’s current TOO article, the issue of Elon Musk’s comments on the riots can be prosecuted comes up. From Jonathan Turley’s article on the topic, the answer is clearly that Starmer’s government will do all it can to prosecute Musk and abolish any remnant of free speech in the UK. And it’s likely a Democrat government in the U.S.  would be happy to cooperate with an extradition request by the UK.

[T]he police are moving to arrest those who are repeating false claims or engaging in inflammatory speech. Rowley is warning that they will not stop at the city limit or even the country’s borders.

He warned “We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you.”

Rowley was asked by a reporter about the criticism by Elon Musk and others over the response of the government. Musk noted a video of someone allegedly arrested for offensive online comments with a question, “Is this Britain or the Soviet Union?”

Pundits and politicians in the United Kingdom have called for an investigation or the arrest of Musk for merely speaking publicly on the controversy.

The reporter said that high profile figures have been “whipping up the hatred,” and that “the likes of Elon Musk” are involved in the online speech. She then asked what the London police are prepared to do “when it comes to dealing with people who are whipping up this kind of behavior from behind the keyboard who may be in a different country?”

Rowley told the reporter:

“Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law. You can be guilty of offenses of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred, there are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the publishing of material. All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets the thugs and the yobs who are taking — who are causing the problems for communities.”

The message is chilling because free speech has been in a free fall in the United Kingdom as well as other Western countries. I discuss this trend in my new book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.

The decline of free speech in the United Kingdom has long been a concern for free speech advocates. A man was convicted for sending a tweet while drunk referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.” Yet another was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting.” A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a “cult.”

We also discussed the arrest of a woman who was praying to herself near an abortion clinic. English courts have seen criminalized “toxic ideologies” as part of this crack down on free speech.

The London police are now deputized to stop or arrest those engaged in speech deemed inciteful or inflammatory. Last year, the police stopped a man from walking in the street because there were pro-Palestinian protesters and his presence would be inciteful because he was “quite openly Jewish.”

The United Kingdom has a myriad of laws criminalizing speech with vague terms allowing for arbitrary enforcement. For example, Public Order Act 1986 prohibits any expressions of racial hatred, defined as hatred against a group of persons by reason of the group’s color, race, nationality (including citizenship) or ethnic or national origins.

Section 18 of the Act specifically includes any speech that is “threatening, abusive, or insulting.” An arrest does not have to be based on a showing of intent to “stir up racial hatred,” but can merely be based on a charge that “having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby.”

The country has also targeted social media companies to force them to censor users for speech deemed threatening, abusive or insulting by the government.

These ambiguous laws are written on the same “trust us, we’re the government” rationale. The police insist that they will use their discretion wisely in what speech will result in arrest.

Ordinarily, one would expect the U.S. government to push back on the suggestion that these laws could be used to arrest and extradite its citizens for the use of free speech. However, the Biden-Harris Administration has been a proponent of censorship and blacklisting for years. At the same time, leading Democrats have called for European-type laws to be adopted or enforced against U.S. citizens for their views on social media.

We previously discussed how Democratic leaders like Hillary Clinton called on foreign countries to use or pass censorship laws to prevent Elon Musk from restoring free speech protections on Twitter.

The effort of these politicians would allow free speech to be reduced to the lowest common denominator as countries export their anti-free speech laws. When Clinton called upon Europeans to censor Americans, this is precisely what such actions would look like.  These foreign countries could force Americans to curtail their speech under the threat of ruinous financial penalties or even arrest.

As some of us predicted, these laws have expanded as the desire to silence others becomes an insatiable appetite. Advocacy groups have pushed the police to crackdown on their critics.  Now, the threat to “throw the full force of the law at people” may be extended to the people of other nations.

We could all soon be dancing to that same tune:

“London calling, see we ain’t got no swing

Except for the ring of that truncheon thing”

Sky News article on men already arrested for online speech.

Tyler Kay (left) and Jordan Parlour
Image:Tyler Kay (left) and Jordan Parlour

The Beginnings of Democrat Lawfare: Tucker interviews Geoff Shepard on Watergate

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If you think that lawfare was invented by Merrick Garland, the House January 6 Committee, Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, and Letitia James, think again. This is a mind-blowing interview with Geoff Shepard, a Harvard-trained attorney who was intimately involved with the Watergate affair and says he spent 27,000 hours researching the events. Corrupt prosecutors, a corrupt judge (Maximum John Sirica), and lying journalists (Woodward and Bernstein, commonly seen as the heroes of Watergate). And ambitious, stupid Republicans.

Sound familiar?

Geoff Shepard: New Proof that Watergate Was A Scam (tuckercarlson.com)