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John McCain’s Staff Endorse Biden, Explicitly Because He’s Worse on War
More than 100 former staff members for Senator John McCain are supporting Joseph R. Biden Jr., a show of support across the political divide that they hope amplifies the “Country First” credo of the former Arizona senator.
Many of the onetime McCain aides who signed the letter share his hawkish foreign policy views and recoil from Mr. Trump’s “America First” politics, which Mr. Salter called his “coddling of dictators or disinterest in our alliances.”
Got that? “Country First” means world empire and endless war; while on the contrary, “America First” means world empire and endless war at the hands of someone who whines about it sometimes.
Hillary Clinton Gave State Dept. Job to Ghislaine Maxwell’s Nephew
Alexander Djerassi gets to help decide America’s Middle East policy. Not you.
According to his online profile, Mr. Djerassi was chief of staff and special assistant in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, covering U.S. relations with Arab states, Israel, and Iran from 2009 to 2012.
“Secretary Clinton gave Alex a job in one of the most sensitive areas of Obama’s executive apparatus,” a source said.
“The fact Alex Djerassi, fresh out of college, was put in charge of the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, covering the Middle East, was an interesting move.
“He worked directly on the Arab Spring, and Hillary sent Alex as the US representative to the expatriate rebel groups Friends of Libya and Friends of the Syrian People. His was given special treatment.” …
“He worked on matters relating to democratization and civil society in the Arab world, the Arab uprisings, and Israeli-Palestinian peace. Djerassi has served as a U.S. representative to the Friends of Libya conferences, Friends of the Syrian People conferences, U.S.-GCC Strategic Coordination Forum, and several UN General Assemblies.”
Word from the Wise
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
–H. L. Mencken
We Should Never Grow Tired of Saying ‘I Told You So’
**I wrote this three years ago, look at the last sentence**
If I made the statement right now that this society is in a culture war I don’t think anyone reading this would argue with me. I know that a lot of you would say that free speech is under attack, but understand that basic freedoms are as well. If Free Speech drops, everything goes away and I mean everything.
When I went to college what seems like a century ago nobody was declaring, “you can’t say that.” On the contrary, free speech was encouraged and everybody was asked to speak up and say what was on their mind. That seemed to take a drastic turn in the last 20 years.
The meme above is an accurate depiction of what is happening on college campuses today. Any student who says something that is outside of the protective bubble they have put up is immediately shouted down and typically tagged a “Nazi.” The theory is that if they can label you the worst of all things, the “racist Nazi,” you are completely discredited and anything further coming out of your mouth is hate speech.
Even if you were to somehow “win the day,” they will just change the rules and BOOM, you’re a Nazi again!
This is not only happening on college campuses but many of these tyrants have graduated and taken up home in H.R. departments all throughout commerce.
To the Rescue!
Thank goodness the Peruvian government is protecting its young people from Covid-19.
Shot By Cops, Thwarted By Judges And Geography
How qualified immunity works: U.S. courts show wide regional disparities in granting qualified immunity, the controversial legal doctrine now under fire for protecting officers accused of excessive force.
The shooter was Fort Worth, Texas, police officer Hugo Barron. He and his partner had been looking for two shirtless Black men wanted for an armed robbery involving tennis shoes. When the cops spotted David Collie, they pulled into the apartment complex, got out of the squad car and started shouting commands at him.
Police dashboard camera video shows that Collie was walking away from the two cops as he pulled his hand out of his pocket and raised his arm. That’s when Barron fired his gun. A hollow-point bullet slammed into Collie’s back, punctured a lung and severed his spine, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
In the four years since then, Collie, now 37 years old, has lived in nursing homes, afflicted with infections, pressure sores, and bouts of crushing depression. As he talked about the July 2016 shooting and what it took from him, wails from an elderly patient echoed down the corridor. The odors of urine and excrement wafted in from the hall. Collie closed his eyes and exhaled. “Paralyzed over some tennis shoes? Come on, man,” he said. “You’re playing with a human life here.”
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