B-Man

The Left are masters at projection. Whatever they accuse the Right of -- be it sexism, racism, anti-Semitism or violence -- they're the ones guilty of it. Kinda like when someone's significant other accuses them of cheating, because they're the actual cheaters. We all know it and see it, and yet they keep trying to pretend it's the Right that's violent. Here's The Economist doing just that: https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/08/05/economist-says-far-right-emboldened-and-ready-for-violence-n2399254 Trump was already President for 4 years. Liberal journalists need to stop inventing scare stories.

Damn Putin-loving New York Times. As War Gets Bleaker, More Ukrainians Appear Open to a Peace Deal https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/world/europe/ukraine-russia-peace-mood.html

Thank you President Trump.

New York’s so-called “Equal Protection of Law Amendment” is headed for November’s ballot after a tortuous journey through the courts. On Friday, public comments on what will be listed as Proposition One closed, and the state Board of Elections moved to finalize its language. But as we can expect from Democrats — remember the deceptively named federal “Inflation Reduction Act”? — this “Equal Protection” law is anything but. The left is marketing Proposition One as critically necessary to protect abortion rights in New York after the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision. But contrary to the fear-mongering, Dobbs did not ban abortion: It merely reminded the nation that the Constitution says nothing about abortion’s legality — leaving states free to decide their own laws. And New York state needs more abortion protection like the Sahara Desert needs more sand. New York enshrined legal abortion statewide with bipartisan support in 1970 — three years before Roe v. Wade — and reinforced it more recently. Those state laws are not affected by Dobbs one smidgen. The truth is that Prop. One originated as Democratic Party red meat for the November election. Democrats learned that Dobbs alarmism really works to drive their voter turnout, especially with affluent white female liberals. So for 2024, Democrats splattered proposals and referenda purporting to “protect abortion” on election ballots in more than half a dozen states nationwide, including New York. Here, though, Democrats took the opportunity to range far beyond abortion paranoia. If Prop. One were really about protecting abortion, one simple sentence would suffice: “Every individual who becomes pregnant has the fundamental right to choose to carry the pregnancy to term, to give birth to a child, or to have an abortion.” That’s verbatim from the state public-health law already on the books in New York. But this “abortion” amendment reads nothing like that straightforward sentence. Instead, it aims to add superfluous abortion protections — while making breathtakingly sweeping changes to state anti-discrimination statutes that have nothing to do with abortion. Prop. One’s Section A adds a whopping 11 new categories to the existing protections against discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed and religion. Only two of them touch abortion. But four of the new categories — sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and age — expand existing law to enshrine transgender minor “rights” in the state Constitution. Alert parents instantly recognize these code words for what they mean in our schools right now: The left is coming after our children. Meanwhile, Section B is the proposition’s knock-out punch. It says any and all of the discriminations banned in Section A are permitted if such discrimination is done to “prevent or dismantle” another discrimination. It basically adds to the state Constitution that much-ridiculed quote from racism trafficker Ibram X. Kendi: “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” https://nypost.com/2024/07/28/opinion/nys-faux-abortion-amendment-is-a-sneaky-leftist-wishlist/

Don't forget in 2023

DEMOCRAT CIVIL WAR WATCH: Fetterman Warns Kamala About Picking Josh Shapiro. In a rather stunning development in the Kamala Harris veepstakes, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is reportedly concerned about Harris selecting his state's governor, Josh Shapiro, as her running mate. According to Politico, three individuals familiar with the discussions have revealed that Fetterman's advisers have privately communicated these concerns to Harris' team. https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/08/04/democrat-civil-war-watch-fetterman-warns-kamala-about-picking-shapiro-n4931331 .

PREPARING FOR HIS FOURTH TERM: Obama Steps Out From Behind the Curtain to Help Run the Harris Presidential Campaign. Barack Obama has been a very busy man in recent weeks. Within hours of Joe Biden's disastrous June 27 debate with Donald Trump. the former Democratic president was working the phones looking to engineer a quick Biden exit. That was not to be. Biden was within three points of Trump in the national polls and felt that Obama, Pelosi, and the whole gaggle of establishment Democrats were running scared. There were still four months to go before election day, and Biden felt he had time to recover. He was not to be given that time. Biden was dumped from the ticket and unceremoniously kicked to the curb in favor of a vice president with the lowest approval rating in history. Kamala Harris has since been transformed. She's no longer the bumbling, fumbling punchline to a political joke. She's the savior of the nation, girding her loins to do battle with the Evil One, Donald Trump. But just because the media is portraying her as a world-beater doesn't mean anything. She's still a disaster area as a candidate. So Barack Obama has decided to step out from behind the curtain and run the Harris campaign. https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/08/04/obama-steps-out-from-behind-the-curtain-to-run-the-harris-presidential-campaign-n4931329 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/02/kamala-harris-hires-new-senior-strategists-campaign-expands-portfolio-others/

Bidenomics. I Just Learned the REAL Unemployment Rate, and It Sucks Stephen Green There are lies, damned lies, and government statistics — and maybe none is more damnable than the official unemployment rate which is half the actual rate, according to Rasmussen. Worse, the number of Americans who are neither retired nor employed is more than four times higher than July's official rate of 4.3%. Rasmussen surveyed nearly 9,000 American adults and found that in July the percentage of Americans who are unemployed and looking for work — this is the number that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) should report each month — was 8.4%. The BLS reported a rosy 4.3% unemployment rate last month, up from June's equally imaginary 4.1%. From there, things only get worse. Because under Bidenomics, of course, they do. One in four adult Americans is retired, which is nice for them. Fifteen percent say they're entrepreneurs (that can be anything from driving an Uber to launching a Silicon Valley startup), and just under 30% are employed by a private company. Nearly one in 10 work for the government at one level or another. Those workers are supported entirely by tax dollars without producing any material wealth. Every government employee involved in regulation makes it harder for the rest of us to do so. If you've been keeping track of these numbers in your head, you might notice they don't add up to anything close to 100%. About three percent of adults surveyed answered "not sure" about their employment situation, the kind of answer that I assume involves smoking weed. The remaining 9.7% said they were unemployed but not looking — i.e., "Not in Workforce." That means the percentage of Americans who could be working and perhaps would really like to be working but either can't find work or have given up finding work is 18.1%. That's more than four times the official unemployment rate. It also means that the 45% of Americans who do work in the private sector are, in one way or another, supporting the 55% who don't, can't, or won't work. So if you felt tired getting up for work on Monday morning, that might be why. https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/08/05/i-just-learned-the-real-unemployment-rate-and-it-sucks-n4931352

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Pennsylvania Court Drops Bombshell Ruling: Digital Images of Completed Absentee and Mail-In Ballots are Public Records by Jim Hoft In a landmark decision, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that digital images of completed absentee and mail-in ballots are to be considered public records. This pivotal ruling stems from a case involving appellant Michelle Previte, who sought to obtain electronic copies of these ballots from the 2020 General Election via Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law (RTKL). The case began when Previte submitted RTKL requests to the Erie County Board of Elections, seeking access to digital images of all mail-in and absentee ballots, as well as images of the outer envelopes and polling place ballots from the November 2020 election. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/pennsylvania-court-drops-bombshell-ruling-digital-images-completed/

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