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GOP CONVENTION: Media malpractice – On Tuesday, network morning shows played the part of Biden ventriloquist dummies, literally repeating campaign talking points smearing the event.

• https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2020/08/25/watch-nets-perfectly-recite-biden-campaign-attacks-rnc

MAIL-IN VOTING: CLICK [3:24] to hear Nancy Pelosi call President Trump a domestic terrorist for objecting to the Democrats’ push to eliminate in-person voting.

MAIL-IN VOTING: “The American Postal Workers Union’s National Executive Board has voted to endorse Joe Biden for President of the United States. In their decision, the Board recognized his record of advancing the cause of unions, his support for the public Postal Service, postal workers, and his opposition to postal privatization.”

• https://www.postaltimes.com/postalnews/apwu-executive-board-endorses-joe-biden-for-president/

TDS: Suddenly, the Left hates foreigners – I refuse to soil the garden by repeating the vile hatred spewed at Melania Trump over her restoration of the Rose Garden, which was based on Jackie Kennedy’s original plans.

Even worse were Ugly Bette Midler’s nasty tweets about Mrs. Trump’s convention speech.

• https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/08/howard-fineman-of-nbc-news-msnbc-melania-trump-turned-the-lovely-rose-garden-into-a-neo-fascist-parade-ground/
• https://djhjmedia.com/rich/bette-midler-attacks-melania-trump-during-2020-rnc-speech-calling-her-an-illegal-alien-on-social-media/

2020: Black vote – CLICK [3:16] to hear a Black preacher rip into Kamala Harris’ record while she was the Attorney General in California. “When people show you who they are, believe them. That’s Kamala.”

CLICK [7:07] to hear a Black Democrat explain why he endorsed Trump at the GOP convention.

DELAWARE: Last week, police were called to the Planned Parenthood in Dover after a man picked a fight with pro-lifers who were peacefully demonstrating on the public sidewalk. During this argument, he pulled out a handgun and made a threatening statement to the group.

Police officers arrested the guy and charged him with two counts of aggravated menacing, two counts of terroristic threatening, and possession of a firearm during commission of a felony. He was later released on a $26,000 unsecured bond.

• https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/08/25/police-arrest-man-for-pulling-gun-on-pro-life-activists-outside-planned-parenthood/

NEW YORK: Some loser threw a brick through Republican Rep. Tom Reed’s office in Corning.

• https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/top-stories/tom-reed-to-hold-press-conference-after-office-in-corning-was-vandalized/

WASHINGTON, DC: CLICK [:31] to see a mob of Black Lives Matter militants bully Washington, D.C., restaurant patrons who refused to brandish the Black Power raised fist sign.

Tom Ryan won the internet with his pithy response.

• https://www.theblaze.com/news/leftist-militants-harass-dc-restaurant-patrons

WISCONSIN: Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor Tony Evers has talked tough and declared a state of emergency in an attempt to quell the sustained rioting.

He doesn’t care enough about his people or their property to ask you-know-who for help.

CLICK [:49] to hear the heartbreak of this man’s loss.

His business was started by his parents 40 years ago. They’ve been in this particular location for 31 years. “We didn’t do anything to anybody. Why did we deserve it?”

• https://bigleaguepolitics.com/breaking-trump-chief-of-staff-mark-meadows-confirms-wisconsin-dems-turned-down-federal-support-to-stop-riots/
• https://www.dw.com/en/us-wisconsin-governor-declares-emergency-ahead-of-new-protests/a-54697254
• https://www.revolver.news/2020/08/kenosha-wisconsin-boogaloo-shooting/

CATHOLIC: Sr. Deirdre “Dede” Byrne, POSC, is scheduled to speak on day three. She’s an amazing woman … a surgeon, a retired U.S. Army colonel, a missionary, and a Catholic religious sister, and a member of the Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

She is presently the superior of the Washington house of the Little Workers, and works at a medical clinic. You can read more about her at the link.

• https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/sister-soldier-surgeon-speaker-catholic-sister-to-address-republican-convention-60455

FASHION: Gucci is playing along with the Left’s desire to destroy masculinity. If you’ve got a barf bag handy, you can click and read about it.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/gucci-dresses-men-like-little-girls-in-emasculated-male-fashion-show

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) spoke on the first night of the Republican National Convention on Aug. 24, 2020.

“Growing up, he had to cross the street if a White person was coming. He suffered the indignity of being forced out of school as a third grader to pick cotton, and never learned to read or write. Yet, he lived to see his grandson become the first African American to be elected to both the United States House and Senate. Our family went from Cotton to Congress in one lifetime. And that’s why I believe the next American century can be better than the last.”

Maximo Alvarez fled Cuba with his parents at the age of 13 when Fidel Castro and his communist regime took over the island. Tissue alert!

Andrew Pollack’s daughter Meadow was one of the students killed during the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018. Tissue alert!

Kim Klacik is a Baltimore Republican who is running for Congress.

Herschel Walker has been a close personal friend to Donald J. Trump for 30 years. “It hurts my soul to hear the terrible names people call him. The worst one is ‘racist.‘”

Nick Sandmann talked about how the hatred of the Left ruined his life.

The Left Stream Media disgust me. Everybody has seen the video of the far from peaceful protesters swarming past the gate and on to the McCloskeys’ property, demanding entrance to their home.

But, once again, the Slimers in the Left Stream Media referred to the McCloskeys as “that St Louis couple who brought out their rifles as Black Lives Matter protesters peacefully marched through their community.”

Another speaker, Nick Sandmann, was referred to as another “disgraced” individual who “who interacted with the elder native American in DC.”

Again, we’ve all seen the videos showing that the Native American activist deliberately got up in to 16-year-old Nick’s face while his cohorts created distorted video of a young man attempting to be polite.

Sandmann has also won multiple lawsuits for defamation during the weeks after the incident when the media inflamed the nation against him and his school by depicting them as intolerant racists.

• https://www.lifenews.com/2020/08/24/abc-trashes-pro-life-teen-nicholas-sandmann-before-he-speaks-at-republican-convention/

COVID-19: Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post once opined that “more Republicans will die than Democrats,” because the coronavirus policies in red states like Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas, showed an “arrogant and reckless disregard of expert advice.”

Uhhhhhhh … no. As the pandemic winds down, the numbers are proving the opposite to be true. A third of all U.S. coronavirus deaths occurred in just three states – New York, New Jersey, and California – all controlled exclusively by Democrats.

Last week, Joe Biden said during his acceptance speech that Trump bears the blame for the “more than 170,000 Americans [2ho] have died [from the coronavirus]. By far the worst performance of any nation on Earth.”

Again, no. The U.S. has recorded the highest total number of COVID-19 deaths in the world. But some countries (like China) are not being open about their numbers, while others haven’t done as much testing as we have. Besides which, adjusted for population, the U.S. is number 10, behind numerous countries in Europe and South America, including the United Kingdom and Spain.

• https://bongino.com/contrary-to-media-narrative-blue-states-account-for-most-coronavirus-deaths
• https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/uncomfortable-data-biden-slams-trumps-covid-response-33-deaths-are

ABORTION: Disturbing content [13:38] – On August 24^th, the pro-life investigators of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released a new video showing sworn testimony of abortion industry officials, this time admitting that babies are sometimes delivered “intact” despite documenting the opposite intention on paper.

Full disclosure: This sickened me so much, I couldn’t watch it all.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/watch-planned-parenthood-officials-admit-under-oath-to-altering-abortions-in-organ-harvesting-scandal

TRANS: “Is butchery ethical simply because no one dares to complain about it?” – This article is important.

• https://mercatornet.com/fancy-a-vaginoplasty-think-again/65887/

2020: Trump’s goals for his second term – They sound good. I’m disappointed there’s nothing about the national debt. I remember hearing him say during an interview that it would be a priority for his second term.

• https://bongino.com/president-trumps-second-term-agenda

2020: Demographics – This article examines our shifting demographics and suggests the Democrats are probably wrong about how they will produce an unstoppable left-wing majority. Religion and birth rates are big factors that favor Republicans.

• https://mercatornet.com/how-republicans-will-benefit-from-americas-demographic-transformation/65864/

2020: Gun control – Anywhere that Democrats win majorities, they go after guns. In Australia, people like them got everything they wanted. But they didn’t stop. “Gun Control End Game” talks about what they have done and are doing now. Think “Give a mouse a cookie.”

• https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200824/gun-control-end-game
• https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/democrats-unprecedented-support-gun-control-dnc/615514/

OREGON: Portland – CLICK [:55] to see/hear the latest bull from the violent anarchists terrorizing Portland. On Saturday, at least 250 of them marched through the Portland’s suburbs, burning American flags and demanding sleeping residents give them shelter. They also had a guillotine. French Revolution anyone?

• https://www.theblaze.com/news/violent-rioters-portland-guillotine-burn-american-flags

NEW YORK: New York City – BLMers marched to the home of the “fascist” NYPD union president’s house to protest the union’s endorsement of “fellow fascist” President Trump.

They were met there by a slue of New York City cops and the barricades they had erected to protect the block.

• https://www.theblaze.com/news/blm-protesters-nypd-union-president

A black man who was shot by police is the proximate excuse Black Lives Matter used to justify destroying yet another American city.

They trashed the downtown area, breaking windows and looting stores every where, all while screaming “Get the cash register” and “Hey, get all that sh**.”

They burned down a car dealership.

They even burned down a church that had a sign out front saying “Black Lives Matter”!

Rioters brandished semi-automatic rifles at police officers and law-abiding citizens and threw Molotov cocktails and bricks at officers at close range.

One officer was knocked out with a brick; as his fellow officers dragged his limp body to a safer location, the BLM thugs cheered, clapped, and shouted “F*** the police.”

Wisconsin’s disgusting Democrat governor is condemning the cops, yet the man who was shot, Jacob Blake, had a warrant out for his arrest, a history of assaulting police, and past charges for domestic abuse & a sex crime. He also had a history of resisting arrest and keeping handguns under the seat of his SUV. He was shot while resisting arrest and reaching under the front seat of his SUV.

CLICK [:19] to see a video of the shooting incident that supposedly sparked the riots.

Now watch this video, which explains in simple terms how NOT to get shot by police.

• https://www.revolver.news/2020/08/tony-evers-kenosha-wisconsin-riots/
• https://www.usconstitution.net/dream.html

TRUMP: Tissue alert [1:40] – A little over three years ago, President Trump delivered one of the most important speeches of his presidency.

At Krasinski Square in Warsaw, Poland, standing before a monument to the Warsaw Uprising, he called for defending Western civilization against all enemies who seek to destroy it.

• https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/heroes-of-western-civilization-76-years-after-the-warsaw-uprising/

MAIL IN VOTING: It’s NOT secure – CLICK to see the origin for the screen grab graphic I made (above).

2020: Democratic National Convention – Raheem Kassam reports at The National Pulse that the only presidential candidates before Joe Biden who failed to get a bump in the polls during their convention were George McGovern (1972), John Kerry (2004), and Mitt Romney (2012).

Even if you don’t specifically remember those elections, you probably know there has never been a President McGovern or a President Kerry or a President Romney.

• https://thenationalpulse.com/editor/no-bump-chump-biden/

2020: Democrat Priorities – Last Tuesday, Chuck Schumer addressed the convention audience with Lady Liberty in the background.

In that speech, he promised that Democrats needed to take back control of both house of Congress, as well as the White House, in part so they can “undo the vicious inequality of income and wealth that has plagued America for far too long.”

• https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/susan-jones/schumer-well-undo-vicious-inequality-income-and-wealth-has-plagued

2020: China prefers Biden – A recent National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) report says China wants Biden in the Oval Office.

That should come as no surprise to anyone who has been following the story of how Biden sucked up to the ChiComs while his son, Hunter Biden, cut highly lucrative deals with Chinese firms.

• https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/08/07/intelligence-report-china-prefers-that-trump-loses-election/

ALABAMA: Helen Johnson (47) is responsible for herself, her two daughters, a niece and two grandchildren. She ran out of money; then she ran out of food. By Saturday, the family had gone two days with nothing to eat. She went to the store with $1.25, hoping it would be enough for a carton of eggs.

When she realized she was 50 cents plus tax short, she stuffed five eggs in her pocket out of desperation. The store called the cops. You can probably guess the rest from the photo, but do yourself a feel good favor and click to read the Rest Of The Story. (Also, grab a tissue.)

• https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2014/12/tarrant_police_officer_deliver.html

DELAWARE: These be Democrats [2:32] – A 7-year-old boy and his mother had left a pro-Trump demonstration and were in line at a restaurant when they were attacked by two female Biden supporters, who stole and destroyed their Trump signs, then stole the kid’s MAGA hat.

One of the women was arrested Friday and the other Saturday. They’ve been charged with robbery, conspiracy and endangering the welfare of a child.

I think these two accurately represent today’s Democratic Party’s encouragement for violence, theft, and cruelty toward the weak.

Dearest is GOP Sign Central for our area. He’s already getting reports of Trump signs being stolen. I suggested we get some printed up that say, “There was a Trump sign here, until some Democrat Loser stole it.”

• https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/shock-video-mom-call-911-biden-supporters-attack-7-year-old-boy-outside-dnc-convention-wearing-red-maga-hat/
• https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/woman-arrested-theft-7-year-old-trump-supporters-maga-hat-outside-biden-convention-hall/
• https://djhjmedia.com/eric/police-make-second-arrest-in-attack-on-7-year-old-trump-supporter-outside-of-dnc-convention/

ILLINOIS: Chicago [4:29] – This is just one of the videos looters posted of themselves committing felonies. The Chicago Police Department has formed a Looting Task Force Videos campaign to identify and arrest the perps. The potty-mouthed moron in this one has been charged with two felony counts of burglary and two felony counts of looting.

• https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/20/chicago-police-arrest-woman-taeshia-rochon-posted-looting-task-force-video-live-stream-facebook-youtube-report/

OREGON: Portland – The rioters in Portland have thrown fireworks, golf balls, rail spikes and rocks at police and others. Their latest innovation is balloons filled with poop. Individuals have been seen using lacrosse sticks to launch projectiles further.

President Trump tweeted that he’s waiting for the city of the state governments to ask for help. He’s ready to send in the National Guard and end this. How bad does it have to get before the Democrats running things finally admit they’ve been fools?

• https://djhjmedia.com/steven/portland-rioters-throw-poop-balloons-at-police-trash-blazers-boys-and-girls-club-in-85th-straight-day-of-chaos-video/

TENNESSEE: This law moved from introduction (8/7/2020) to the governor’s signature (8/20/2020) like greased lightning.

• https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=SB8005

COVID-19: FINALLY … some evidence-based data (as opposed to politically-charged declarations) to support social distancing and mask wearing.

I haven’t heard anyone say we don’t need to wash hands.

Catholic churches across the country have been open for up to four months since shelter-in-place orders were lifted.

In that time, over one million public masses have been celebrated following guidelines to prevent the spread of the virus – watch your distance, wear your mask, and wash your hands.

There has not been a single outbreak linked to church attendance in the parishes that followed the Three Ws guidelines: Watch your distance, Wear your mask, and Wash your hands.

The few churches that have been reported as sources of COVID-19 outbreaks did not follow social distancing or require masks; they also promoted congregational singing.

• https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2020/08/19/evidence-based_guidelines_to_celebrate_mass_safely_are_working.html

Gaslighting is a manipulation tactic used to gain power.

The following article by Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D. was published in Psychology Today on Jan 22, 2017.

Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality. It works much better than you may think. Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders. It is done slowly, so the victim doesn’t realize how much they’ve been brainwashed. For example, in the movie Gaslight (1944), a man manipulates his wife to the point where she thinks she is losing her mind.

In my book Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People – and Break Free, I detail how gaslighters typically use the following techniques:

They tell blatant lies.

You know it’s an outright lie. Yet they are telling you this lie with a straight face. Why are they so blatant? Because they’re setting up a precedent. Once they tell you a huge lie, you’re not sure if anything they say is true. Keeping you unsteady and off-kilter is the goal.

They deny they ever said something, even though you have proof.

You know they said they would do something; you know you heard it. But they out and out deny it. It makes you start questioning your reality—maybe they never said that thing. And the more they do this, the more you question your reality and start accepting theirs.

They use what is near and dear to you as ammunition.

They know how important your kids are to you, and they know how important your identity is to you. So those may be one of the first things they attack. If you have kids, they tell you that you should not have had those children. They will tell you’d be a worthy person if only you didn’t have a long list of negative traits. They attack the foundation of your being.

They wear you down over time.

This is one of the insidious things about gaslighting—it is done gradually, over time. A lie here, a lie there, a snide comment every so often…and then it starts ramping up. Even the brightest, most self-aware people can be sucked into gaslighting—it is that effective. It’s the “frog in the frying pan” analogy: The heat is turned up slowly, so the frog never realizes what’s happening to it.

Their actions do not match their words.

When dealing with a person or entity that gaslights, look at what they are doing rather than what they are saying. What they are saying means nothing; it is just talk. What they are doing is the issue.

They throw in positive reinforcement to confuse you.

This person or entity that is cutting you down, telling you that you don’t have value, is now praising you for something you did. This adds an additional sense of uneasiness. You think, “Well maybe they aren’t so bad.” Yes, they are. This is a calculated attempt to keep you off-kilter—and again, to question your reality. Also look at what you were praised for; it is probably something that served the gaslighter.

They know confusion weakens people.

Gaslighters know that people like having a sense of stability and normalcy. Their goal is to uproot this and make you constantly question everything. And humans’ natural tendency is to look to the person or entity that will help you feel more stable—and that happens to be the gaslighter.

They project.

They are a drug user or a cheater, yet they are constantly accusing you of that. This is done so often that you start trying to defend yourself, and are distracted from the gaslighter’s own behavior.

They try to align people against you.

Gaslighters are masters at manipulating and finding the people they know will stand by them no matter what—and they use these people against you. They will make comments such as, “This person knows that you’re not right,” or “This person knows you’re useless too.” Keep in mind it does not mean that these people actually said these things. A gaslighter is a constant liar. When the gaslighter uses this tactic it makes you feel like you don’t know who to trust or turn to—and that leads you right back to the gaslighter. And that’s exactly what they want: Isolation gives them more control.

They tell you or others that you are crazy.

This is one of the most effective tools of the gaslighter, because it’s dismissive. The gaslighter knows if they question your sanity, people will not believe you when you tell them the gaslighter is abusive or out-of-control. It’s a master technique.

They tell you everyone else is a liar.

By telling you that everyone else (your family, the media) is a liar, it again makes you question your reality. You’ve never known someone with the audacity to do this, so they must be telling the truth, right? No. It’s a manipulation technique. It makes people turn to the gaslighter for the “correct” information—which isn’t correct information at all.

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/here-there-and-everywhere/201701/11-warning-signs-gaslighting

Not precisely FAKE NEWS, but definitely something to toss into the circular file.

The New York Post published this factual headline with the graphic and a lede saying, “This year could end with a bang. Scientists recently spotted an asteroid on a direct collision course to Earth — projected to hit a day before the presidential elections in November.”

Kinda suggests it’s an “OMG WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE” crisis coming, right?!

Except, I couldn’t find anything at all about this asteroid at NASA’s asteroid watch site.

Fortunately, the Fox News version wasn’t so hysteria-making.

AND it included a link, which helped my research immense

What the NY Post did NOT say is that this asteroid (designated 2018VP1) is small by asteroid standards.

Yes, at 6.5 feet, it does resemble a small car.

An asteroid the size of an SUV whizzed past us just last week … and nobody cared.

“At roughly 10 to 20 feet across, asteroid 2020QG is very small by asteroid standards.”

The NY Post article also does not say that 2018VP1 has a 99.59% chance of missing Earth.

And even if it does hit us, it is so small, it will just burn up in the atmosphere.

NASA wasn’t at all concerned about 2020QG, the bigger one that made a very close pass last week.

“If it had actually been on an impact trajectory, it would likely have become a fireball as it broke up in Earth’s atmosphere, which happens several times a year.“

• https://nypost.com/2020/08/22/asteroid-heading-our-way-day-before-presidential-election/
• https://www.foxnews.com/science/asteroid-fly-past-earth-election-day-nasa-says
• https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/details.html#?des=2018%20VP1
• https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2018%20VP1
• https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7728

TRUMP ECONOMY: Housing – “The housing market is well past the recovery phase,” said NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun.

Sales of existing homes have surpassed pre-pandemic rates. The median sale price of existing homes has also gone up substantially.

• https://thehill.com/policy/finance/513096-home-sales-rise-25-percent-in-july-as-housing-market-booms-amid-pandemic
• https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/five_ways_the_democrat_convention_backfired_benefitting_trump.html

CONGRESS: Relief bill – Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, wants to impose emissions requirements on airlines in exchange for additional pandemic relief.

• https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/democratic-senator-wants-airplane-emission-limits-in-pandemic-relief-bill

2020: No room in the “big tent” – For the first time since 2000, Democrats for Life was not permitted to caucus as an official part of the Democratic National Convention.

The group held its own virtual convention outside the DNC site. The president said, “Biden’s giving us no reason to vote for him.”

• https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/democrats-for-life-press-on-despite-partys-freeze-out

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This amateurish, 19-year-old Democratic candidate has defeated 13-year incumbent Stan Frownfelter, 823 to 809, in the Aug. 4 Democratic primary for the 37th District.

Because there is no Republican challenger, he is a shoo-in for the seat.

If that weren’t bad enough, Aaron Coleman (who claims to be a feminist) won despite having admitted to abusing multiple girls when he was in middle school. (Remember, he’s all of 19 now.)

One young woman says Coleman “harassed me for months, it got so bad that he found out my family’s home phone and wouldn’t stop calling it until we picked up.“

Another young woman says that, just five years ago, Coleman “got one of my nudes and blackmailed me with it and told me if I didn’t send him more he would (send) it to all of my friends and family. And when I didn’t send him more, he sent it to everyone I knew.” The victim wasn’t sure how Coleman obtained the photo. “All I know is he’s an awful person and he should not be allowed to run for anything,” she stated.

The third, and possibly most heinous, was his vicious bullying of a six grader that got so bad, she attempted suicide. It included “calling me fat, telling me to kill myself, like I’m never going to find anyone, like I’m worthless, just downgrading me every day” and sending messages that read, “F*** you you f***ing ratchet fat s**t. F*** off whale. Go on a diet and get some braces.“

On his Facebook page dedicated to his campaign, Coleman admitted to the accusations, but said they were “the actions of a sick and troubled 14-yo boy. I made serious mistakes in middle school and I deeply regret and apologize for them. I’ve grown up a great deal since then.”

Oh. So he’s grown up so much in just five years that he’s now ready to draft and vote on LEGISLATION?!

And it’s not like he’s actually grown up all that much. During the campaign, he told former Republican state lawmaker John Whitmer that he would “laugh and giggle when you get COVID and die.“

Democrats voted for him. It’s not clear to me how many of them were dead. When I told Dearest about this, he said, “He’s gotta be somebody’s puppet.” Yeah. Unless, could it be, Kansas Democrats are actually this lazy, stupid, and corrupt?

• https://www.theblaze.com/news/democratic-candidate-kansas-revenge-blackmail

The Rose Garden as we are all familiar with was established in 1962, under President John F. Kennedy. It has, of course, enjoyed updates and small face lifts, but after nearly six decades, roots have grown and spread, affecting some plants, larger trees have created too much shade, the turf has drainage issues, and the walkways, which were built or redone during different updates, don’t match.

During the first three weeks of August, teams of workers – including gardeners and electricians – took it all out and replaced it with the garden in the plan above. The goals included not only fixing the problems listed above, but also making the space better for televised and streamed events. For example, the lighting has been updated for more TV-friendly viewing and all the utility cables placed beneath the now-matching paving to hide the unsightly, but necessary wires, cords and plugs. The entire project has been funded by private donations.

The flowers will be predominantly roses. Through the years, the Rose Garden has been planted and replanted with seasonal flowers of many species, but the mainstay has been the rose, of which more than 50 varieties have been planted. Mrs. Trump chose to focus on several of the most iconic American species, including the “White House Rose,” a white varietal with a tall, vertical shrub style; the “JFK Rose,” which is cream-colored; and the “Peace Rose,” a smaller tea rose with a pale yellow center and light pink edges.

Mrs. Trump has also brought in an outdoor furniture expert to create furnishing to replace the random pieces of furniture from previous administrations. She has also commissioned a bench similar to the one Ellen Wilson had placed in the garden, which remained there from 1913 until 1962.

• https://www.ntd.com/your-guide-to-melania-trumps-rose-garden-renovations_491655.html
• https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/home-decor/a33436629/white-house-rose-garden-history/