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by | October 24, 2020 · 6:54 am

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THURSDAY’S DEBATE: [1:34:24] – If you didn’t already watch it and want to, it’s here. CLICK https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1319476145797156864 [:31] to hear the best moment of the night. Trump says to Biden, “I ran because of you.”

2020: [22:06] – A comparison of Trump’s and Biden’s policies.

2020: The difference could not be more stark … or more important.

ABORTION: Warning for sexually suggestive and sacrilegious content [4:40] – Leftism is a religion and abortion is its high sacrament. Full disclosure: I only got through 15 seconds of this.

The second link goes to something else awful.

BOBULINSKI: Former Biden insider, Tony Bobulinski, has agreed to provide documents to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

CLICK https://rumble.com/vat6sh-breaking-hunter-biden-whistleblower-speaks.html?mref=22lbp&mc=56yab to hear Bobulinski’s statement on Rumble.

He says they will show that then-VP Joe Biden was the “big guy” who was supposed to get 10% of the profits in a multi-million dollar deal Hunter was cooking up with a Chinese firm.

BORDER: Joe Biden wants open borders. But … since 2016, the DOJ has prosecuted 749 members of the notorious gang known as MS-13. Of these, only 8% were citizens with another 3% who were here legally. Eighty-nine percent were either here illegally or their status was unknown.

The criminal cases included racketeering, murder in aid of racketeering, narco-terrorism conspiracy, human trafficking, illegal alien in possession of a firearm, and illegal reentry following deportation.

COLORADO: Two Colorado churches and their pastors are currently protected from the state’s enforcement of capacity limits and face masks during worship services thanks to an order handed down by a federal judge on October 15, 2020.

This decision came following a lawsuit against federal and state officials for an array of religious freedom violations. Thomas More Society represented the congregations and their pastors in the law suit addressing violations of the right to free exercise of religion resulting from Governor Jared Polis’ COVID-19 related Executive Orders.

COVID-19: The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), a division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has intervened on behalf of COVID-positive patients who have been denied non-medical visitors, including birthing partners and clergy.

FBI: Fox News has obtained copies of the receipt the FBI gave Isaac (the computer repairman) when he turned Hunter Biden’s laptop over to them, as well as of the Dec. 9, 2019 subpoena the FBI sent to Isaac calling him to appear to testify before U.S. District Court in Delaware.

The FBI doesn’t open a case file or issue subpoenas unless they have evidence of criminal activity. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude from the above that the FBI has a money laundering case in the works involving Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.

The FBI has declined to confirm or deny the existence of such an investigation, but that is standard practice.

HUNTER: Child porn – Trump’s lawyer and former Mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, and former NYPD Commissioner, Bernie Kerik, say they gave the New Castle, Delaware, police a bunch of printed photos and a copy of Hunter Biden’s hard drive from which they were downloaded.

Giuliani and Kerik say the images show that Hunter was engaged for years in potentially criminal sexual behavior involving children and minor teens. They also allege that Biden family members knew about it.

The New Castle County Police Department says they alerted the state attorney general and that they had jointly decided to refer the claims and the copy of the hard drive to the FBI instead of investigating it itself.

The FBI said on Wednesday: “We have no comment, in keeping with our standard practice of neither confirming nor denying the existence of an investigation.”

HUNTER: Two more items – One, Hunter Biden’s business conglomerate didn’t just benefit from foreign investments and fees. It also scored tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer-backed subsidies and loans.

Two, according to the Epoch Times, certain dates and locations mentioned in emails on Hunter’s laptop match Secret Service logs, further confirming the laptop’s contents are genuine.

LATE NIGHT BIAS: During September, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon made 455 jokes at Trump’s expense and another 64 jokes about Trump’s family or administration. They mocked Joe Biden only 14 times.

MASSACHUSETTS: Boston – Most Catholic schools in Boston are open for live instruction, compared with only 4% of public-school districts. This has led to an increase in Catholic school enrollment of 4,484 students. Back in July, the Catholic school system had predicted a reduction of 5,700 students.

“Our Spring of Despair — caused by an historic enrollment drop due to the pandemic — has turned into an Autumn of Hope,” said Thomas Carroll, superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Boston

NEW YORK: After a federal judge ordered New York’s Democratic governor to explain in court his shutdown of Jewish schools, Gov. Andrew Cuomo backed down and agreed to allow the schools to open.

There is no reason schools should not be open everywhere. Not only are COVID-19 cases rare in schools and in children, but also a recent study by the American Association for the Advancement of Science found “children have a low risk of COVID-19 and are disproportionately harmed by precautions.”

In addition, Cuomo’s order absolutely reeked of anti-Semitism. The eight ZIP codes covered by the order corresponded with predominantly Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods. BUT, the order did not apply to six ZIP codes that had comparable or higher positivity rates and positive tests, but did not have predominantly Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods.

OBAMACARE: Politifact rated Obama’s repeated promise, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan,” the 2013 Lie of the Year.

But during Thursday night’s debate, Joe Biden repeated it, stating categorically that “nobody” lost their health insurance plans when Obamacare was fully implemented.

A RAND Corporation study found that approximately 5.9 million “nobodies” lost their insurance plans as a direct result of Obamacare’s rules and regulations.

OREGON: A small Christian school in Oregon is suing Democratic Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and other Oregon officials for discriminating against private and religious schools. Oregon public schools have been allowed to reopen; private and religious schools are still locked down

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is representing Hermiston Christian School, a K-12 school in Hermiston, Oregon, which has a student body of 51. The lawsuit reads in part: “After 41 years of faithful service, Hermiston Christian School (‘HCS’)

The lawsuit alleges that Brown reversed course because she feared declining public school enrollment.

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by | October 23, 2020 · 12:01 pm

Francesco

A documentary film called Francesco is causing consternation in Catholic circles because it shows Pope Francis making several controversial statements. Among them,

“Homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out, or be made miserable because of it. What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered. I stood up for that.”

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò says, “One does not have to be a theologian or a moral expert to know that such statements are totally heterodox and constitute a very serious cause of scandal for the faithful. … As Catholics, we are called to side with those who defend life, the natural family, and national sovereignty. We thought that we had the Vicar of Christ at our side. We painfully acknowledge that, in this epochal clash, he who ought to be guiding the Barque of Peter has chosen to side with the Enemy, in order to sink it.”

Bishop Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island says, “The Holy Father’s apparent support for the recognition of civil unions for same-sex couples needs to be clarified. The Pope’s statement clearly contradicts what has been the long-standing teaching of the Church about same-sex unions. The Church cannot support the acceptance of objectively immoral relationships. Individuals with same-sex attraction are beloved children of God and must have their personal human rights and civil rights recognized and protected by law. However, the legalization of their civil unions, which seek to simulate holy matrimony, is not admissible.”

Cardinal Müller says “Catholics are irritated” and the “enemies of the Church feel confirmed by the Vicar of Our Lord Jesus Christ.” He reminds us that when there is a conflict between the words of a Pope and the Words of God, one has to choose God.

Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke says that “such declarations generate great bewilderment and cause confusion and error among Catholic faithful, inasmuch as they are contrary to the teaching of Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, and of the recent Magisterium by which the Church guards, protects and interprets the whole deposit of faith contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition.”

Bishop Marian Eleganti, of Chur, Switzerland, says, “the papal interviews have become inflationary. … They give us personal views that are neither indisputable nor infallible.”

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by | October 23, 2020 · 6:40 am

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2020: Debate – Kristen Welker, Thursdays presidential debate moderator, comes from a strongly Democratic family that gave enough money to Obama, they were invited to the White House for Christmas.

“Anyone who’s ever dealt with Welker knows she’s an activist, not a reporter. The White House press team views her the same way they would AOC or Pelosi if they walked in the office,” a senior White House official told The Post.

2020: North Carolina – C-SPAN only filmed six people at Kamala’s gig, but there may have been as many as a dozen.

2020: The difference could not be more stark … or more important. One example: The unemployment rate of 10.5% in blue states is 59% higher than the 6.6% rate in red states.

AVENGERS: Six Avenger stars held a fundraiser for Kamala Harris, which Chris “Star Lord” Pratt declined to join. The cancel culture Twitter mob dumped on Pratt. Kudos to Robert “Iron Man” Downey Jr. for tweeting support:

What a world… The “sinless” are casting stones at my #brother, Chris Pratt… A real #Christian who lives by #principle, has never demonstrated anything but #positivity and #gratitude… AND he just married into a family that makes space for civil discourse and (just plain fact) INSISTS on service as the highest value.

If you take issue with Chris,,, I’ve got a novel idea. Delete your social media accounts, sit with your OWN defects of #character, work on THEM, then celebrate your humanness… @prattprattpratt I #gotyerbackbackback

CHILE: Santiago – CLICK https://twitter.com/LifeNewsHQ/status/1318226787583905792 [:47] to see scenes from the destruction of two Catholic churches by cheering radicals. Please pray for the persecuted church around the world.

CNN: They wanted to do a piece on Hunger in America and this was the best person they could find to interview?

CLICK https://twitter.com/FogCityMidge/status/1318328832743542784 [:15] to hear what the Trumpster thinks of CNN.

COOKIE POLL: The current status of cookie sales at the bakery where cookie sales have correctly predicted the last THREE presidential elections.

FACEBOOK: Facebook’s algorithm flagged a Babylon Bee (i.e., satire) article.

Okay, fine. It’s a dumb computer. BUT, after a manual review, Facebook decided they would stand by their decision to remove the article and demonetize the Babylon Bee page. Their reason? They say this article “incites violence.”

BTW, the piece was literally a regurgitated joke from a Monty Python movie.

A Black Lives Matter leader said that if change doesn’t happen, they’ll “burn down this system.” That’s allowed on Facebook. You can quote it. You can link to it.

But a Monty Python joke about burning a witch at the stake? That’s unacceptable.

FRANCE: A Paris middle school teacher was beheaded on Oct. 16 in a suburb of Paris. Eyewitnesses said that the killer shouted “Allahu akbar” — Arabic for “God is great” — as he murdered the man near his school.

GOOGLE: The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google. Eleven Attorney Generals, all from Republican states, are joining the lawsuit as plaintiffs. They include Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, and Texas.

This case will likely take years to resolve, but the good news is that associate deputy attorney general Ryan Shores said, “Nothing is off the table,” including breaking up the company.

HANNITY: [3:49] – Actress Kirstie Alley talks about why she is endorsing President Trump.

HOT MIC: FOX broadcasters Joe Buck and Troy Aikman revealed their profound political bias when they snark about a military fly-over before the Sunday’s Packers-Bucs game. One might hope they did not know they were being recorded, but with people who sneer at our military and praise the alleged wisdom and frugality of a Biden/Harris administration, who could know?

Re: Bitching about game day flyovers is just a way of disrespecting our military. They don’t actually cost anything, because the time and money come out of the training budgets for the pilots and the branch.

I’M CONVINCED: Not – CLICK https://twitter.com/TheBrandonMorse/status/1318224878164725762 [:23] to hear six typical Leftists tell us why we should vote for Democrats.

INGRAHAM: [9:45] – The Slimestream Media is hard at work presenting Joe as the “moral” choice.

JORDAN PETERSON: [9:44] – The video above “The fatal flaw in leftist American politics was filmed in 2018. His points are still very timely.

Peterson just made his first new video in 18 months in which he explains that he was fighting through a very serious illness. I found it very interesting that he, a Canadian citizen who supposedly has access to “great” health care for free, chose instead to pay cash at American hospitals.

KANSAS: It never ceases to boggle my mind that these people can be so outrageously abusive, yet continue to say we are the ones causing all the hate.

MEDIA BIAS: Trump tweeted the full 38 minutes of his interview by 60 Minutes with the tag line, “Look at the bias, hatred and rudeness on behalf of 60 Minutes and CBS. Tonight’s anchor, Kristen Welker, is far worse! #MAGA.”

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/153080620724/posts/10165668067695725/ to see it. “Lesley Stahl was talking to him like she was his overbearing power-hungry boss or bitter ex-wife. She cannot even BEGIN to hide her sheer hatred she has for him. It oozes out of her every spoken word.” – Doc Holliday

OBAMACARE: [5:17] – Prager U explains why it never worked like they said it would.

RUDY GIULIANI: Common Sense 10/21/2020 – More deeply disturbing revelations about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Warning: Child porn.

On Monday, Giuliani delivered to Delaware police a report about possible endangerment and sexual exploitation of children. The report included photographs and texts that were on Hunter Biden’s laptop. The material has been forwarded to the Delaware Department of Justice.

“There are many texts which I gave to them that point out that family was concerned about the safety of the child,” Giuliani said. “I will tell you the evidence I gave them states it was reported to Joe Biden. What did he do about it?”

Also concerning is, What did the FBI do about this? They’ve had a copy of Hunter’s hard drive for a very long time.

SOCIAL MEDIA BIAS: Twitter and Facebook have censored the president’s social media accounts and the accounts belonging to his re-election campaign at least 65 times. Ninety-eight percent of the instances of censorship occurred on Twitter.

In contrast, the companies have not censored former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his campaign accounts. At all.

WALK AWAY: Today’s excerpt – The attacks from the left are becoming more relentless, but we don’t have to standby and take the abuse. In the last two days, I have been called delusional and racist for supporting President Trump and those were the nice things I was called.

I personally refuse to stand silently hiding anymore. No one should live in fear because of their political beliefs. In the immortal words of one of our Founding Fathers:

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” – Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776.

GRAMMY NOTES: Papa Buzz was so excited when Bunny chose viola that he dug out his old violin and vowed to start playing again. Here they are tuning up together.

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by | October 22, 2020 · 9:40 am

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2020: I just thought of one up side to Trump’s mic being off. He can needle Joe without being heard. I have a suspicion that Joe is easy to rattle and that his dementia will get worse when he’s rattled.

2020: Crooked Joe – He’s running on a “morals and values” platform. Now we hear from Tony Bobulinski that Joe was secretly been playing footsie with China to line his own pockets.

On Wednesday night, Bobulinski issued a statement in which he confirmed he was a recipient of the May 13, 2017 email on Hunter’s laptop. He described himself as a former partner of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden and Joe’s brother Jim in the China scheme.

He confirmed that “the big guy” (who was supposed to get 10% of the millions) was then-VP Joe Biden, who he said was a willing and eager participant in the scheme to partner with a shady Chinese Communist firm.

ACB: The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-0 to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court despite the Democratic members of the panel boycotting the hearing.

The nomination will now move to a full Senate vote on Monday. Democrats promise to boycott that vote as well.

BHO: Philadelphia (pop. 1,584,064) – How the mighty have fallen! “Once upon a time, Barack Obama had the world at his feet. Tens of thousands of adoring people would come to see him, and often women would react to him as teens once reacted to Frank Sinatra, by fainting away in his presence. Now, though, not so much.” – Andrea Widburg

CLICK https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1318701336389701632 [:24] to see Trump’s Oct 20, 2020, rally in Erie, PA (pop. 101,786).

BORDER: https://twitter.com/CBPMarkMorgan/status/1318239303848366081 [1:01] – Trump’s big beautiful wall is now 371 miles long. Every new mile had lead to a decrease in drug and human smuggling, better border security and a safer country.

CHINA: Plus, you know, China and the Slimestream Media both LIE A LOT. China wants the world to think its situation is better than it likely is, while Democrats wants ours to look worse, so they can continue to blame Trump.

So who is to say what the actual situation with COVID-19 is in either country?!

I still do not know a single person who caught the disease. I know one person who had a co-worker test positive, but he tested negative. And I know one person who has a neighbor who had a relative that died.

I was at the dentist yesterday and expressed compassion for their discomfort. The tech I was talking to was wearing TWO masks, a plastic face shield, a paper gown and gloves. She said it had gotten easier with cooler weather. I bet!

I asked if she knew anyone who had caught the disease and she said no. Meanwhile, the traffic outside the office was back to normal and the restaurant next door was open. Where exactly are all the people still DROPPING LIKE FLIES due to “Donald Trump’s mismanagement”?

FBI: The FBI has confirmed that (a) it is in possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop and (b) both FBI and Justice Department officials concur with Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe’s statement that the laptop is not part of a Russian disinformation campaign targeting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

IRAN: The FBI has confirmed that Iranian (and also Russian) agents are working to sway voters away from Trump and toward Biden. This one fact alone should be enough to convince PATRIOTS to vote REPUBLICAN this year!

MEDICARE: Average Medicare premiums have dropped by 34% since President Trump took office. Some states have experienced price reductions of over 50% or more. Medicare prescription drug prices have also declined, with premiums down 12% on average.

TUCKER: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=657037178510940 [10:02] – Voters are stupid and need to be protected from information that might encourage them to not vote for Democrats. Also, Chris Cuomo is a pompous hypocrite. (Tucker is amazing at dead pan mockage.)

WALK AWAY: Today’s excerpt – My sister, who I love and respect, wrote on Twitter today that anyone who votes for Trump is dead to her. The hate from the left is so intense, yet they keep saying Trump and Republicans are the ones spreading the hate. I have not once attacked anyone for their beliefs.

Are my beliefs, are my fears, are my hopes for this country not as important as theirs? Am I just supposed to be okay with censorship and being told I am a bad person because I am white? I was walking in NYC Sunday night and a man told me to go f*** myself and spit on me. I didn’t do a thing to him.

I will never vote Democrat again. I made that decision when Nancy ripped up the speech, but the nail in the coffin were the riots and looting and the screams to defund the police and the mainstream media and friends and family denying it.

This American will always support our police. I will always stand for our flag and I will always respect the Constitution of the greatest country on earth!! I am exhausted I am sad, but I am also pissed and I will stay strong!!!

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=822989685113458 [3:43] – God is just as patient and attentive to those who fear to approach Him as these folks were with this frightened dog.

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by | October 21, 2020 · 9:59 am

USA TODAY refused to publish this

The author posted it at PJ Media instead and I’m sharing it here, in full, because if the Slime didn’t want us to read it, then we all should definitely read it!

(I added the picture of Hunter sleeping with his crack binky.)

BIG TECH BURNED BY BIDEN BLUNDER

By Glenn Harlan Reynolds [aka, Instapundit]

In my 2019 book, The Social Media Upheaval, I warned that the Big Tech companies — especially social media giants like Facebook and Twitter — had grown into powerful monopolists, who were using their power over the national conversation to not only sell ads, but also to promote a political agenda. That was pretty obvious last year, but it was even more obvious last week, when Facebook and Twitter tried to black out the New York Post’s blockbuster report about emails found on a laptop abandoned by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter.

The emails, some of which have been confirmed as genuine with their recipients, show substantial evidence that Hunter Biden used his position as Vice President Joe Biden’s son to extract substantial payments from “clients” in other countries. There are also photos of Hunter with a crack pipe, and engaging in various other unsavory activities. And they demolished the elder Biden’s claim that he never discussed business with his son.

That’s a big election-year news story. Some people doubted its genuineness, and of course it’s always fair to question a big election-year news story, especially one that comes out shortly before the election. (Remember CBS newsman Dan Rather’s promotion of what turned out to be forged memos about George W. Bush’s Air National Guard service?)

But the way you debate whether a story is accurate or not is by debating. (In the case of the Rather memos, it turned out the font was from Microsoft Word, which of course didn’t exist back during the Vietnam War era.) Big Tech could have tried an approach that fostered such a debate. But instead of debate, they went for a blackout: Both services actually blocked links to the New York Post story. That’s right: They blocked readers from discussing a major news story by a major paper, one so old that it was founded by none other than Alexander Hamilton.

I wasn’t advising them — they tend not to ask me for my opinion — but I would have advised against such a blackout. There’s a longstanding Internet term called “the Streisand effect,” going back to when Barbara Streisand demanded that people stop sharing pictures of her beach house. Unsurprisingly, the result was a massive increase in the number of people posting pictures of her beach house. The Big Tech Blackout produced the same result: Now even people who didn’t care so much about Hunter Biden’s racket nonetheless became angry, and started talking about the story.

As lefty journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote in The Intercept, Twitter and Facebook crossed a line far more dangerous than what they censored. Greenwald writes: “Just two hours after the story was online, Facebook intervened. The company dispatched a life-long Democratic Party operative who now works for Facebook — Andy Stone, previously a communications operative for Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, among other D.C. Democratic jobs — to announce that Facebook was ‘reducing [the article’s] distribution on our platform’: in other words, tinkering with its own algorithms to suppress the ability of users to discuss or share the news article. The long-time Democratic Party official did not try to hide his contempt for the article, beginning his censorship announcement by snidely noting: ‘I will intentionally not link to the New York Post.’”

“Twitter’s suppression efforts went far beyond Facebook’s. They banned entirely all users’ ability to share the Post article — not just on their public timeline but even using the platform’s private Direct Messaging feature.”

“Early in the day, users who attempted to link to the New York Post story either publicly or privately received a cryptic message rejecting the attempt as an ‘error.’ Later in the afternoon, Twitter changed the message, advising users that they could not post that link because the company judged its contents to be ‘potentially harmful.’ Even more astonishing still, Twitter locked the account of the New York Post, banning the paper from posting any content all day and, evidently, into Thursday morning.”

This went badly. The heads [of] Facebook and of Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, are now facing Senate subpoenas, the RNC has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, arguing that Twitter’s action in blacking out a damaging story constituted an illegal in-kind donation to the Biden Campaign, and most significantly, everyone is talking about the story now, with many understandably assuming that if the story were false, it would have been debunked rather than blacked out.

CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeted: ”Congrats to Twitter on its Streisand Effect award!!!” Big Tech shot itself in the foot, and it didn’t stop the signal.

Regardless of who wins in November, it’s likely that there will be substantial efforts to rein in Big Tech. As Greenwald writes, “State censorship is not the only kind of censorship. Private-sector repression of speech and thought, particularly in the internet era, can be as dangerous and consequential. Imagine, for instance, if these two Silicon Valley giants united with Google to declare: henceforth we will ban all content that is critical of President Trump and/or the Republican Party, but will actively promote criticisms of Joe Biden and the Democrats.

“Would anyone encounter difficulty understanding why such a decree would constitute dangerous corporate censorship? Would Democrats respond to such a policy by simply shrugging it off on the radical libertarian ground that private corporations have the right to do whatever they want? To ask that question is to answer it.”

“To begin with, Twitter and particularly Facebook are no ordinary companies. Facebook, as the owner not just of its massive social media platform but also other key communication services it has gobbled up such as Instagram and WhatsApp, is one of the most powerful companies ever to exist, if not the most powerful.”

He’s right. And while this heavyhanded censorship effort failed, there’s no reason to assume that other such efforts won’t work in the future. Not many stories are as hard to squash as a major newspaper’s front page expose during an presidential election.

As I wrote in The Social Media Upheaval, the best solution is probably to apply antitrust law to break up these monopolies: Competing companies would police each other, and if they colluded could be prosecuted under antitrust law. There are also moves to strip them of their immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects them from being sued for things posted or linked on their sites on the theory that they are platforms, not publishers who make publication decisions. And Justice Clarence Thomas has recently called for the Supreme Court to revisit the lower courts’ interpretation of Section 230, which he argues has been overbroad. A decade ago there would have been much more resistance to such proposals, but Big Tech has tarnished its own image since then.

Had Facebook and Twitter approached this story neutrally, as they would have a decade ago, it would probably already be old news to a degree — as Greenwald notes, Hunter’s pay-for-play efforts were already well known, if not in such detail — but instead the story is still hot. More importantly, their heavy handed action has brought home just how much power they wield, and how crudely they’re willing to wield it. They shouldn’t be surprised at the consequences.

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by | October 21, 2020 · 9:12 am

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2020: A new IBD/TIPP presidential poll was released on Tuesday showing Biden 48.1% vs. Trump 45.8%. With a difference of 2.3 points and an MOE of +/- 3.2, Trump and Biden are statistically tied.

Biden’s lead in this poll has dropped steadily from its peak of 8.6 points on Oct. 13.

2020: Biden is hiding out in his basement during the home stretch – “How outrageous it is for Biden to be so smug and secure in his victory, so smug and secure the national media will campaign on his behalf, that he thinks he can sit it out, hug the ball, run out the clock, while President Donald Trump is out there doing two and three events a day — while being president.” – John Nolte

ALASKA: Homer – CLICK https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1317822833653960705 [:32] to see a moose with mad soccer skillz.

BACK THE BLUE: CLICK https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1317925507900579840 [1:06] to see body cam footage of white cops saving a suicidal black man. After the man was safely pulled back from the ledge, the cops said, “I just could just hear it in his voice, he started crying. You could hear him weeping and I just remember telling him I loved him. I thought he needed to hear that. I had so much compassion and so much love for the man that I wanted him to know that people care about him. I never met him ever in my life. I believe that I was put there in that moment of time for that reason. I know in my heart that man will succeed in life.”

CALIFORNIA: Baldwin Park – On Sunday night, a drop-off box for filled-in ballots was set on fire. Many of the more than 200 ballots that were inside the ballot box were destroyed.

FLORIDA: Clearwater [1:12] – Brian Kahrs calls this his “blue collar limousine.”

GUN CONTROL: It looks like the Left’s long-time efforts to disarm Americans is one of the victims of the coronavirus. Between mid-March and mid-July, 110,000 guns were sold in California. Nearly half of these (47,000) were sold to first-time gun owners.

HUNTER: CLICK https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1318537680926494720 [:30] to see Trump’s hard-hitting new ad.

The Biden campaign’s non-denial denials and the Slimestream Media’s “Russian disinformation” baloney are absurd and, frankly, insulting. The hard drive contains thousands of actual emails that other people on the email chains have confirmed. The hard drive also contained thousands of private pictures and text messages which further prove authenticity. And now we have a signed and dated receipt.

Donald Trump was quite literally impeached on less evidence than this. But don’t hold your breath waiting for Thursday’s debate moderator, Kristen Welker, to ask Joe a single question about it. She’s an anchor at NBC.

MICHIGAN: CLICK https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1317814537479925762 [:13] to hear Joe Biden call Gretchen “Jackboots” Whitmer the “best governor in America.”

PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE COMMISSION: It’s supposed to be bipartisan, but all the Republicans are Never Trumpers, which explains why, as soon as the Hunter Biden scandal broke, the debate commission changed the subject of Thursday’s debate. It was supposed to be about foreign policy. Oops. They also decided they’re going to mute Trump’s mike when they feel like it.

QANON: The article linked below explains the so-called Q movement. If it’s real, it reminds me a lot of Deep Throat from the Watergate era.

According to the author, “QAnon” doesn’t actually exist. It’s shorthand for the anonymous tweets posted by nobody-knows-who about deep state corruption. No one in the general public even knows who Q is or if s/he is a single person. Some believe Q is a group of nine individuals, 6 military intelligence and 3 civilians. There appears to be some coordination between Q and Trump, which would make sense, since he has long promised to drain the Swamp.

At Trump’s town hall last week, moderator Savannah Guthrie pressed the president to condemn QAnon, which she called a fringe conspiracy cult. But there is no group. There is no charismatic leader, no official website, and no membership roster.

And unlike BLM and Antifa, “it” neither organizes rallies nor supports violence. So why did Guthrie lump it with white nationalism? Why has the Slimestream Media published numerous articles critical of it? And why are social media groups dedicated to discussing it banned?

Maybe, just maybe, the Left is so twitchy about QAnon, because Q is real and the information he/she/they drip out through anonymous internet posts are a genuine threat to the Swamp.

We can hope.

RUSH: Basically, Savage was suggesting that Limbaugh should go off somewhere now and die quietly instead of sharing his journey with his millions of loyal radio listeners. What a jerk.

SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook and Twitter tried to squash the New York Post’s blockbuster story on Hunter Biden’s emails. It kinda sorta backfired on them … BIG TIME.

The Post’s story generated 2.59 million interactions (likes, comments, shares) on Facebook and Twitter last week — more than double the next biggest story about Trump or Biden.

Five of the 10 biggest stories were about the Hunter Biden story, the fallout, or how Facebook and Twitter reacted.

It was the 6th-most engaged article this month, trailing pieces like Trump testing positive for COVID-19 and Eddie Van Halen’s death.

Eighty-three percent of the interactions happened on Facebook, with the other 17% on Twitter.

SOROS: Democrats love to decry billionaires dumping big, dark money into Republican campaigns, but nobody on our side can hold a candle to George, the Nazi Jew.

He has poured $68.5million into trying to defeat Republicans this year. He only spent a paltry $22 million during the last presidential cycle.

TOOBIN: Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended by the New Yorker. He has also been granted some time off from his gig as CNN’s Chief Legal Analyst to deal with “a personal issue.”

Brian “Dumbest Man on Television” Stelter reported for the “Most Trusted Name in News” that “Jeffrey Toobin has been sidelined at a pivotal moment in the run-up to the presidential election. The reason: He exposed himself during a Zoom call with New Yorker colleagues in what he says was an accident.”

Sidelined? Accident? Way to minimize the fact that your network’s jerk-off legal analyst subjected his colleagues to graphic and unwanted sexual abuse. He should be fired, not suspended.

“If you can’t get through a conference call without jerking off you need help.” – Dana Todd

VOTER FRAUD: According to an analysis by Judicial Watch, 353 counties in 29 U.S. states have 1.8 million more registered voters than eligible voting-age citizens. This is a slight improvement over last year, when a similar study found 372 such counties.

In addition, eight states have statewide registered voter totals that exceed 100 percent of eligible voters. These include Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Of these, Michigan is the only one considered to be a swing state for 2020.

States are required under a federal law approved in 1993 to make all reasonable efforts to maintain updated voter registration rolls, but enforcement of the statute was almost nonexistent until recent years when Judicial Watch began suing individual states.

RE: The graphic above – When I googled “voter fraud memes” looking for something to illustrate this story, MY graphic popped up … in the top row. How cool is that! 🙂

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Women’s March – The Left condemns Trump supporters not as people who disagree with them about policy, but as deplorable people who must be unhinged and brainwashed to support a fascist like Donald Trump.

CLICK https://twitter.com/ChuckModi1/status/1317499588975230976 [:20] to see the irony. Or maybe just leave it at trying to unsee that banner …

WHISTLEBLOWER: Two Americans have published evidence that the U.S. government agreed to let Osama bin Laden and more than 100 of his top guys to shelter in Iran with their families in exchange for not targeting the U.S. again after 9/11.

The whistleblowers say that top people in both the Bush and Obama administrations – including Presidents Bush and Obama, VP Joe Biden, SecState Hillary Clinton, CIA Director John Brennan, and FBI Director Robert Mueller – all knew about it.

They say Obama’s $150 billion Iran deal was about buying Iran’s silence about the deal and that it was Hillary Clinton who arranged to move bin Laden to Pakistan for a “trophy kill” to ensure Obama’s reelection.

Bin Laden was never meant to survive his “arrest”, because nobody at the top wanted him alive to testify that two administrations – Republican and Democrat – had arranged for him to continue operating his terror organization in safety, just so long as he didn’t order any hits inside the U.S.

I feel sick.

GRAMMY NOTES: It’s an odd fact that total strangers feel comfortable asking personal questions of and offering unsolicited advice to pregnant women.

One very common question is, “Do you want a boy or a girl?“

I absolutely refused to answer that to anyone, even my husband, because I never ever wanted my kid to have someone say years later, “You mother wanted [what you aren’t].”

I’m not good at being rude, so instead of saying, “None of your business,” I’d say, “I’m really hoping it’s not a puppy or a kitten.”

One person stuttered and said, “Oh right. Just so long as it’s healthy.“

“Well, even if it’s not, we’re not going to leave it at the hospital.”

I could almost hear that person’s jaw hit the ground.

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2020: Above, why we are voting for Trump in one minute. Below, who is voting for Trump in one minute (the line for one of the recent rallies DJT had in AZ).

CLICK https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/015/811/original/5832fdb431efd59c.mp4?1603128600=

CALIFORNIA: San Francisco – On Saturday, a large, predominantly white Antifa crowd showed up to disrupt a small Free Speech Rally and Protest that had been organized by Philip Anderson.

At one point, a white guy from Antifa punched Anderson in the face while his cohorts yelled “Back up, n****r, back up!” https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1317692771084324865 [:31].

The Antifa mob got so unruly that LEOs packed the Free Speech protesters into a police van and drove them away in a high-speed escape https://twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1317579700965879808 [:45].

Anderson tweeted an image of the damage the punch did to his face (above). “Antifa attacked me for no reason. These people are racist terrorists.”

He also tweeted, “I have a question for you, Joe Biden. Do you still think Antifa is just an idea? This is what the ‘idea’ you’re talking about, Antifa, this is what they did to me.”

Twitter suspended his account.

COVID-19: Democrats have criticized President Trump’s campaign rallies are “superspreaders” of the coronavirus. State health officials responsible for maintaining such data say that Covid-19 numbers do not support this claim.

FEMINAZIS: On Sept. 28, the Kappa Delta national organization tweeted its pride in alumna Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

“While we do not take a stand on political appointments, we recognize Judge Coney Barrett’s significant accomplishment. We acknowledge our members have a variety of views and a right to their own beliefs.”

When Feminazis blasted the organization, they deleted the tweet and actually apologized and thanked the thuggish speechmeisters for “holding us accountable.”

FLORIDA: On Monday, The Donald appeared in Florida to a packed auditorium. More than 120,000 people watched via live stream.

On Tuesday, Joe appeared in Florida where an estimated 60 people attended IRL. But only ten of them were audience. The rest were journalists, Biden staff, and technicians. An additional 1,700 viewers watched via live stream.

Biden is supposedly ten points ahead of Trump in the polls. ::snork:

HUNTER: So far, the MSM coverage of the Biden scandal has been limited to criticizing the fact that the scandal is being reported. Their focus has been on Rudy Giuliani being Trump’s lawyer and how “some intelligence sources” claim the whole thing is a Russian disinformation campaign.

Meanwhile, Real Clear Investigations reports that virtually all the jobs that Joe’s wastrel son ever listed on his resume came courtesy of Joe’s political donors, lobbyists and allies.

JEFFREY TOOBIN: The New Yorker has suspended its legal analyst after he was seen pleasuring himself during a Zoom call that included notables from New Yorker notables and WNYC.

He thought he’d turned his camera off. Oops.

It wasn’t the first time the Toobin Schlong got him into the headlines. In 2008, it came out that he had fathered a child while engaging in an adulterous affair with a fellow employee at CNN.

But yeah, Jeff … you go right ahead and make snarky remarks about the allegedly “credible” (NOT) accusations of sexual misconduct that Republican SCOTUS nominees have had thrown at them.

MASSACHUSETTS: Boston – An Anti-Trump rally in this historic city got really weird. Or maybe Satanic. https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1318106416834629633 [1:17]

NEW YORKER: There’s a new game on the internet. It’s easy to play. Just find an old New Yorker cartoon and replace the caption with “Jeffrey Toobin took his dick out on a Zoom call.”

RIDING THE DRAGON: Worth watching [41:19] – The full documentary revealing the secret world of Joe Biden and his family’s relationship to China and the sinister business deals that enriched them at America’s expense.

RUSH: Prayers needed. His cancer has progressed. CLICK https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1318338905926782977 [2:19] to hear his announcement.

“Someone told me — I think this is good advice, may be helpful — the only thing that any of us are certain of is right now, today. That’s why I thank God every morning when I wake up. I thank God that I did. I try to make it the best day I can no matter what. I don’t look too far ahead. I certainly don’t look too far back.”

TRANS: Ben Shapiro says genetic males cannot be females and an mtf trannie sneers, “You don’t know anything about genetics” then lays hands on him and threatens him with a beat down if he says it again.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2864871517129960&notif_id=1603105101476916 [4:22]

TWITTER: The New York Post reviewed the personal tweets of Twitter’s senior execs and found a litany of venom and vitriol directed at President Trump. Samples include:

“GET HIM OUT.”
“What a f–king baboon.”
“crush [Trump] in the election”
Hoping the president would “be utterly humiliated while also suffering greatly from #COVID19.”
Fantasizing about the president being put on a ventilator.
Calling Trump “a f–king idiot” and the voters who elected him — “hysterically f–king stupid people.”

There’s a lot more, but you get the gist.

VIRGINIA: The Democrat majority currently in charge of the formerly great State of Virginia has passed a bill that, with the addition of Democrat Governor Northam’s signature, will make it illegal for law enforcement officers to enforce a whole host of vehicle safety laws.

WALK AWAY: Today’s excerpt – “I’m a Post Op Transgender woman, who was originally convinced that the only hope for a decent life was to vote Democrat. I guess I started waking up with the happenings of the weeks and months after the 2016 election, when I saw the most ridiculous actions from the left being supported by the media. It was so plain to see what was going on, yet people I knew in the LGBT community bought right into it.

“I knew then, that I couldn’t be a part of that party anymore. But where was I to turn? After all the Republicans hated people like me. RIGHT?? I started talking with people in conservative groups and was met with nothing but kindness, acceptance and support. Meanwhile I was seeing people on the left turning on each other. My mind was made up. I walked away for good.

“Today I took the day off so I could vote on the first day of early voting here in Florida. Today my vote was not based on guilt, shame, or a sense of loyalty to the LGBT community. It was based on my love, loyalty, and commitment to the country I love.”

WASHINGTON: Sammamish – Police in this city just east of Seattle said Friday that numerous mail ballots have been stolen from people’s mailboxes and placed or discarded elsewhere.

YEMEN: The two Americans, Sandra Loli and Mikael Gidada, and the remains of a third, Bilal Fateen, were released in exchange for the return of about 250 of the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels from Oman. Loli had been held by the Houthis for about three years and Gidada was held captive for about a year. Fateen died in captivity.

GRAMMY NOTES: Dearest tells me the Tompkins County Republicans who were forced by thuggish Leftists to abandon their little street-side rally had the last laugh.

After said thugs danced off to celebrate their “win over fascism”, the little group of Republicans took their signs back outside. They said they got a lot of honks and thumbs ups from commuters who drove by during rush hour.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=300640621330571 [6:19] to see Lucky’s rehabilitation and adoption into a home where she can be a friend and mentor to children with disabilities like hers.

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Hunter’s Laptop

We now know for certain that the laptop that computer repair guy, John Paul Mac Isaac, turned over to the FBI did belong to Hunter Biden.

We know this because Hunter Biden’s attorney called the computer repair shop a few days ago and asked for Hunter’s computer back. Then he followed up with a letter.

Too bad for the Biden Crime Family that, under Delaware law, the laptop and its contents became the property of the repair business 90 days after it was abandoned there.

And it’s not like the repair guy ever tried to cheat Biden. He tried for four months to contact Hunter Biden about paying his bill and retrieving his property. Biden never answered nor paid for the repair work.

Nor did Mr. Mac Isaac ever attempt to profit from the explosive material on the hard drive. He never approached any media outlet or tabloid. Rather, as soon as he realized the laptop contained material relevant to the security of our nation, he contacted the FBI and cooperated fully.

But, when he realized the FBI was sitting on material which would have contributed to President Trump’s impeachment defense, Mr. Mac Isaac gave a copy of the hard driver to the president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who shared it with the New York Post which broke the first piece of the story on October 14th.

Twitter promptly locked the Post out of its own Twitter account and blocked tweeters from sharing a link to the story on the Post’s web site. Twitter got considerable blow back and unblocked the story, but is still locking the Post out of its Twitter account with demands it delete tweets of its own reporting of the story that Twitter claims is no longer being blocked.

The New York Times published a story critical of the Post for having published the story about Hunter’s email. But who are they kidding? The doddering Gray Lady published Trump’s tax returns! At least the Post said exactly how they came into possession of the laptop’s contents, which is more than the Slime did about Trump’s tax returns.

One interesting point about the Fish Wrap of Record’s complaint is that it did not in any way dispute the authenticity of the emails. In fact, no one has … not Hunter Biden, not Joe Biden, not the Biden campaign. They’re just mad the truth is being reported.

Meanwhile, outlets like Fox News have started to confirm their authenticity … which means that Joe Biden – the man who claims to be the only one who can “Save the Soul of the Nation” from Orange Man Bad – really has been selling out his country for decades.

Yesterday, Biden again refused to answer any questions about the scandal https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1317946492003508224 [:04].

This morning, Rudy Giuliani said more emails and information will be coming out. “There’s more money. There’s some pretty … disgusting things this family was involved with. Really disgusting.”

He did not elaborate, but word is that many of the 25,000 photos on the hard drive document Hunter’s depraved, sex-and-drug-soaked lifestyle that would have opened a President Biden up to major blackmailing by whoever had it.

Also this morning, Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller said the president plans to challenge Biden about the revelations at the debate on Thursday.

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2020: Catholic Vote ad for Trump [1:07] – According to Catholic Vote, Al Gore was the only presidential candidate to win the Catholic vote, but lose the election. And as those of us who are old enough to recall “hanging chads”, that was a very close election.

2020: Biden – Still lying. It boggles the mind that Delaware voters kept sending him back to the Senate after his first failed performance on the presidential campaign trail.

Clearly Lying Joe hasn’t changed a whit. He just falsely claimed that the boilermakers union endorsed him for the November election. The union hasn’t endorsed any presidential candidate for 2020.

BEN SHAPIRO: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=408456736835970 [6:53] to hear Ben actually be funny. He’s usually so intense and serious, it’s actually fun to watch this even if you’ve seen the ridiculous clips he features from the ACB hearings.

BLEXIT: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1621761648026534 [17:17] to hear some wonderfully thoughtful testimonies from folks who came to a BLEXIT march for Trump.

CALIFORNIA: San Francisco – The super woke PTBs in Nancy’s district have decided that at least 44 of its schools need a name change due to perceived “connections to slavery, genocide, or oppression.”

The list of unacceptable names includes Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Garfield, Monroe, McKinley, Franklin Roosevelt, Paul Revere, Alamo, Francis Scott Key, Balboa, El Dorado, Sanchez, Lowell, Mission, Presidio, Webster, and Jose Ortega.

Even a school named after Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) may be renamed, apparently due to the fact that Feinstein replaced a vandalized Confederate flag that was one of several historic flags on display outside city hall when she was mayor in 1986.

The proposed changes would affect more than a third of the schools in the district, all of which continue to be closed. As one parent noted, “We’re not actually helping disadvantaged children by changing the name of the school they can’t attend.”

DEMOCRATS: Thaddeus G. McCotter explains at American Greatness that the Dem’s Biden/Harris ticket is part of a cynical gaslight campaign.

LAMESTREAM MEDIA: I was amused this week to hear the same tone of angry outrage from both Pelosi and Biden when asked a prickly question by one of the journalists they usually only get fluffy Nerf balls from.

Trump is used to the abuse and knows how to deal with it. They haven’t got a clue.

NEVADA: Henderson – A Nevada man has been sentenced to six months in federal prison to be followed by one year of supervised release for opening mail while he was employed as a contract mail carrier by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). He says he was looking for cash.

NEW YORK: Manhattan is boarded up [3:08] – I googled “Manhattan boarded up” and the only major news outlet I got a hit for was Fox News.

Another video @ https://www.facebook.com/100006538472140/videos/2879971435564111/ [2:20].

NEW YORK: Ithaca – More images of the anti-Trumpers and the damage they did at the rally.

It makes me sad how cute those young people in the lower photo obviously think they are.

PRAGER U: Red States vs. Blue States [5:46] – This is well worth your time.

Twitter has used the bogus excuse that the material the New York Post has published was “hacked.” It wasn’t.

Someone believed to be Hunter Biden dropped off a laptop at a computer repair shop to have its hard drive content recovered. That customer never paid and never returned for the device or its contents. As per the repair agreement, ownership of the laptop transferred to the repair person.

Disturbed by the laptop’s content and fearing for his safety, the new owner turned the hard drive over to the FBI in December 2019. When the FBI failed to follow up on the disturbing contents, the repair guy gave his copy of the hard drive to former federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani. 

Giuliani, in turn, released the material to the New York Post.

TRIGGERED: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1017274452124627 [11:36] to hear Michael Knowles’ most triggering speeches. (TIP: This is funny!)

TWITTER: Yoel Roth is head of Site Integrity. He is in charge of developing and enforcing the rules at Twitter. Here are some samples of his personal tweets.

“How does a personality-free bag of farts like Mitch McConnell actually win elections?”

“I’ve never donated to a presidential campaign before, but I just gave $100 to Hillary for America. We can’t fuck around anymore.”

Twitter has justified squashing the Hunter Biden emails with some allegedly high-minded baloney. The Federalist (link below) exposes their hypocrisy by listing eleven different stories of the same ilk that Twitter did not throttle.

One guess what the difference is.

WASHINGTON: Seattle – Bags of stolen mail were were found by the roadsides and in ditches. All of the ballots among the mail were unopened.

GRAMMY NOTES: I have permission to add a new Mascot to our roster. Her garden name is Blossom and she resides across the way from the Buzzers. The two families merged their germs for the pandemic, because the kids were going nuts and they’ve all become great friends. This is the family that came up this summer and camped in our back yard.

They were being home schooled before the coronavirus, which has been a blessing for Mama Buzz. Blossom’s mom has been a huge support to her adjusting to having the kids schooling from home. They also have been swapping kids for one class per day. Mama Buzz does Arts & Crafts. Blossom’s Mom does Science (I think).

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2020: Trump ripped the Biden Crime Family in this speech to senior citizens in Fort Myers, Florida.

2020: Trump vs. Biden town halls – I didn’t watch either one and, after blogging about the local rally, I find I have no appetite for listening to clips.

So far as I can tell, the tweet above summed them up accurately. No surprise. (Stephanopolous moderated Biden’s; Guthrie did Trump’s.)

2020: Joe Biden is a serial liar – Many of the lies he has spewed have been boastful exaggerations about his own past. E.g., claiming he was first in his law school class when in fact he had been at the bottom.

But at least one of his lies demeans the reputation of a good man who isn’t even alive to defend himself. According to Joe Biden, his first wife and infant daughter were killed by a drunk driver.

“A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly — and I never pursued it — drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly and killed my daughter instantly and hospitalized my two sons.”

This is not true. In December of 1972, Biden’s first wife, Neilia, caused the accident when she drove into the path of Curtis Dunn’s tractor-trailer. Dunn overturned his rig trying to avoid the Biden vehicle. Police filed no charges against Dunn and said alcohol had not been involved.

ACB: Inspiring testimony [2:15].

BACK THE BLUE: “Saying somebody in the leg is just wrong and shows an incredible lack of understanding of defensive firearms.” [6:22] – At Thursday’s town hall, Joe Biden said that when confronted with deadly force, police officers should “shoot ’em in the leg.”

The reasons given in the video for not aiming for a leg include that it’s very hard to hit such a small target, especially when it’s moving. Even if you do hit someone in the leg, it rarely stops them. And if you hit the femoral artery or shatter the femur, they’re very likely to die anyway.

If it’s serious enough to shoot someone, then a high center mass shot is the best option.

CATHOLIC: [7:13] – Bishop Athanasius Schneider says, “Today the Church of Rome finds herself in a similar situation of spiritual collapse, due to the spiritual torpor of a majority of the Shepherds of the Church, the excessive absorption of the Pope himself in temporal affairs, and his efforts to bring about the rebirth of a universal aspiration to a this-worldly and naturalistic fraternity.”

The full interview is posted at the link.

CHILD ABUSE: At Thursday’s ABC News town hall, Joe Biden was asked what he would do to protect people like her daughter, an 8-year-old who thinks she’s a boy.

Biden answered, “There should be zero discrimination.”

Psychologist Debra Soh has written, “Waiting until a child has reached cognitive maturity before making these sorts of decisions would make the most sense. But this is an unpopular stance, and scientists and clinicians who support it are vilified, not because science—which should be our guiding beacon—disproves it, but because it has been deemed insensitive and at odds with the current ideology.”

COOKIE SURVEY: A Pennsylvania bakery that makes candidate-specific cookies say their sales have predicted the presidential winner in the past three elections.

“Trump 2020” cookies are three times as popular as “Biden 2020” cookies.

CORNELL: Far above Cayuga’s waters, there’s an awful smell … of putrid wokeness. The overly educated, never-had-real-jobs libtards “teaching” at Cornell University have decided that “English Department” is extremely racist, so they’re renaming it the “Department of Literatures in English.”

I took a graduate course in education while I was attending the Home of the Big Red. The professor was reputedly a leader in the field. I’ve never forgotten the day he told us, “If schools had ever done their jobs properly, they’d all be closed by now.”

I wanted to pass the damn class, so I didn’t say what I was thinking, which was that schools graduate the students they’re done with. But the schools themselves need to stay open because there are always new, younger students who need what they have to offer.

But hey, I didn’t have a Ph.D. in Education like he did … so maybe there was some subtle point I missed about his position. Or not.

HUNTER BIDEN: The New York Post revealed another piece of their Hunter Biden email stash showing that while Joe was Obama’s VP, his son pursued lucrative deals with a Shanghai-based conglomerate called CEFC China Energy Co.

One email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017, with the subject line “Expectations,” included details of “remuneration packages” for six people involved in an unspecified business venture. (Graphic above.)

Another email — sent by Biden as part of an Aug. 2, 2017, chain — involved a deal he struck with then-chairman of CEFC, Ye Jianming, for half-ownership of a holding company that was expected to provide Biden with more than $10 million a year.

Biden wrote that Ye had sweetened the terms of an earlier, three-year consulting contract with CEFC that was to pay him $10 million annually “for introductions alone.”

At the ABC News town hall on Thursday, moderator George Stephanopoulos did not ask Joe “Pops” Biden a single question about the controversy. But on Friday, a CBS News reporter asked him for a response to the New York Post story.

“I have no response, it’s another smear campaign, right up your alley, those are the questions you always ask,” Biden snapped.

MANSPLAINING: Remember when the Slime Stream Media got all hot and bothered about Mike Pence interrupting Kamala Harris at the VP debate.

Gee, big surprise (not), they have a double standard on the subject when the woman being interrupted in a conservative.

MORE EMAILS: Breitbart is breaking news about Hunter Biden emails obtained from a former business associate, Bevan Cooney, who turned them over to Breitbart reporter Peter Schweizer.

The emails lay out in detail how the Vice President’s son and his colleagues used their access to the Obama-Biden administration to arrange private meetings for potential foreign clients and investors at the highest levels in the White House. Among these meetings was a private, off-the-books meeting between then-VP Biden and a delegation of Chinese investors and Communist Party officials.

GRAMMY NOTES: I’m so thankful for my dear Hubby, who was born 71 years ago today.

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