Trump wins in November

Vincent J. Curtis

20 August 2020

Watching the Republican National Convention was like watching dirt being shovel over the political coffin of Joe Biden and the Biden-Harris Democratic campaign.  Trump haters will never understand why, but the campaign which will begin in earnest after Labour Day will be a downhill run to a second term for Donald Trump.

Trump is going to win a bigger victory in 2020 than he won in 2016.  Not only will he hold all the states he won in 2016, but he’s going to flip Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and possibly New Mexico and Nevada.  With New York City abandoned by the wealthy, there may not be enough Democrat votes in the City to offset the Republican support in western and upper New York State.  New York could be in play.

The Democrats are trying to use mail-in voting as a means of harvesting votes.  But they’re only able to arrange this transparent effort at voter fraud in states that Trump doesn’t need to win.  Mail-in balloting and the confusion and fraud that will ensue will only serve to embarrass the Democrat Party, if that is even possible.  The undeliverable ballots in New York State alone could number a million.

Trump is going to win another four year term in November, and that will begin the process of cancelling the cancel culture.

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Social Planners Just a Marxist Front

Vincent J. Curtis

24 Aug 20

Today the Spectator ran a front-page above the fold opinion piece ostensibly by reporter Steven Buist.  Buist is a good enough reporter that he faithfully reported the opinion of the group he was reporting on, the Social Planning and Research Council.  The SPRC released a report that allegedly showed a statistical correlation between poverty and likelihood of getting infected by COVID-19.  (Mysteriously, the several homeless camps in Hamilton are not breeding grounds for COVID, so you can take the statistical study for what its worth.)  As the saying goes, if you torture the numbers enough, they'll confess to anything.  The study concluded that if you're less likely to be infected,, it's because you're white and well off, whereas those more likely to get infected are poor and less likely to be white.

The Social Planning and Research Council must be kicking off a new fundraising campaign.  That’s my explanation for the tendentious conclusion offered in Steve Buist’s column of August 24.  The conclusions were summarized as: that if you’re wealthy, you’re white and healthy, while if you’re poor, you’re less likely to be white and more likely to get sick with COVID-19.

What could be more affirmative of Marxist ideology than that?  Division by race and class correlated with infection.  Since the virus doesn’t know of those divisions, the adverse correlation between health and wealth and race must in some insidious way be caused by those divisions, right?

As few understand, statistics do not prove a cause-effect relationship.  But the unscrupulous know that statistics can be highly suggestive, and use that suggestiveness unscrupulously for political ends.  The end in this case is to affirm Marxist grievances, to imply that the white are wealthy, unfairly privileged, and careless of the fate of the poor underclass.  If you want to know what decades of insinuating of that poison results in, have a look at Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, and now Kenosha, Wisconsin.  All bastions of liberalism.

The very idea of “social planning” is anachronistic.  Economic planners lack sufficient data to run an economy, and that’s why socialism results in economic catastrophe.  Social planning is no different, to say nothing of the arrogance implicit in superiors planning for you, without your consent.

Time to extinguish the SPRC parasite.

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Analysis of Joe Biden’s Acceptance Speech

Vincent J. Curtis 

22 Aug 20

Watching Joe Biden deliver his acceptance speech was like watching a punch-drunk boxer respond to a bell.  He’s been giving speeches for fifty years, and if you if him three solid days of rehearsals, he can read the teleprompter when the lights go on.  But you could see in his face that he was struggling to hold it together for the twenty-five minutes he spoke.  Van Jones commented afterwards that that loud sigh you heard was the sound of Democrats relieved that Joe didn’t stumble in the speech. 

Still, if Joe’s speech was intended to quell fears of his advancing dementia, it didn’t.  Each sentence was its own paragraph.  The thoughts hardly flowed together in logical sequence.  It was a string of complete sentences, practically each one of which stood alone, unconnected to what went immediately before, or after.  Cogency just wasn’t there.

What was there was a lot of twaddle.  It seemed that Joe was unaware of everything that happened since he entered his basement in March.  He also failed to realize the fundamental contradiction of condemning some as irredeemable and then calling for unity and saying how good America was.

I didn’t get everything, but the analysis of the excerpts below with establish the case.

“The current president has cloaked America in darkness for much too long. Too much anger. Too much fear. Too much division.”

Joe establishes that he loathes Donald Trump and Trump’s fighting the culture war, which is supposed to go unfought.  Resistance to Democrats is supposed to be futile, and damn that Donald Trump for trying to prove the opposite.  This is boilerplate appeal to the progressive left.

“Here and now, I give you my word: If you entrust me with the presidency, I will draw on the best of us not the worst. I will be an ally of the light not of the darkness.”

The word of a Biden has proven to be not worth much.  The rest is twaddle.

“For make no mistake. United we can, and will, overcome this season of darkness in America. We will choose hope over fear, facts over fiction, fairness over privilege.”

This establishes the dichotomy of beauty and ugliness in America, according to Joe’s vision of things.

“It's a moment that calls for hope and light and love. Hope for our futures, light to see our way forward, and love for one another.”

Love for one another: except those neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and other deplorables, as we will hear about later on.

“It's about winning the heart, and yes, the soul of America.”

Do thinking people really want the government to be trying to ‘win their souls?’  Twaddle.

“Winning it for the generous among us, not the selfish. Winning it for the workers who keep this country going, not just the privileged few at the top. Winning it for those communities who have known the injustice of the "knee on the neck". For all the young people who have known only an America of rising inequity and shrinking opportunity.”

Whatever happened to that ‘love for each other?’  How can you love the privileged few, the unjust, an America of inequity?  Joe isn’t aware of the contradictions he is offering.

“The worst pandemic in over 100 years. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

The most compelling call for racial justice since the 60's. And the undeniable realities and accelerating threats of climate change.”

The worst pandemic ought to be an admission that Trump is facing a big problem, but he fails to see it.  Likewise, the depression.  However, Trump has both well in hand.  These sentiments might have been sensible in mid-April, but since then much has changed, and Joe gives no indication of realizing it.  The call for racial justice comes from BLM and Antifa in, ironically, Democrat run cities and states.  Think about that for a moment.  Climate change has been off the front pages since the start of the pandemic, and this is a bone thrown to the progressive left, as is the bit about racial justice.

“We can choose the path of becoming angrier, less hopeful, and more divided.

A path of shadow and suspicion.

Or we can choose a different path, and together, take this chance to heal, to be reborn, to unite. A path of hope and light.”

Who is sowing that anger, loss of hope, and division and casting shadows of suspicion more than Democrats who have resisted Trump with the tenacity of fight to the last ditch hold outs?  Here again is the message that resistance to Democrats is futile.  You must vote Democrat, our they will continue the war.

Character is on the ballot. Compassion is on the ballot. Decency, science, democracy.

They are all on the ballot.”

Twaddle, twaddle, and more twaddle.  What’s on the ballot is the choice between a senile Biden who will be quickly replaced after the election by Harris and the AOC progressives, and Trump, who has given nothing but economic success and demonstrated that there is a good alternative to Democrat orthodoxy.

“5 million Americans infected with COVID-19.

More than 170,000 Americans have died.

By far the worst performance of any nation on Earth.”

Joe blames Trump for the pandemic and the deaths of so many people.  As for the worst performance on earth, that award goes to Andrew Cuomo of New York and Bill DeBlasio.  Trump and his supporters aren’t getting any of the love Joe spoke of.

“More than 50 million people have filed for unemployment this year.

More than 10 million people are going to lose their health insurance this year.

Nearly one in 6 small businesses have closed this year.

If this president is re-elected we know what will happen.

Cases and deaths will remain far too high.”

What will happen is the economy will re-surge, and by neglect, Joe’s admitting it.  If cases and deaths are already too high, they will remain so forever.  A small error in logic Joe’s speechwriters missed.

“A president who takes no responsibility, refuses to lead, blames others, cozies up to dictators, and fans the flames of hate and division.”

Trump and his supporters aren’t getting the love Joe promised.  Trump famously takes responsibility and leads, and that’s what annoys Democrats the most.  Trump is fighting the culture war, and that is the ‘fanning the flames of hate and division.”  As for cozying up to dictators, name one?  Trump’s kicked all their asses.  Besides, if you’re going to pick someone’s pocket, you’ve got to get close to them.

“As president, the first step I will take will be to get control of the virus that's ruined so many lives.”

How is Joe going to ‘get control of the virus?’  What even does that mean?  Trump has vaccines that will become available early next year.  Therapeutics have also advanced dramatically, thanks to Trump’s leadership.

“We will never get our economy back on track, we will never get our kids safely back to school, we will never have our lives back, until we deal with this virus.”

The economy is already rapidly coming back on track.  The problems with schools all seem to be in states and cities run by Democrats, who think keeping kids out of school and the economy locked down will lead to Trump’s defeat in Novemeber.  The virus is being dealt with, Joe, you just haven’t been paying attention.  You’ve been hiding in your basement.

“The President keeps telling us the virus is going to disappear. He keeps waiting for a miracle. Well, I have news for him, no miracle is coming.”

A great statement of hope there, Joe, that just disproved all Joe said about getting control of the virus. The vaccines are coming early in 2021.  Not a miracle, just hard work and leadership.

“We'll develop and deploy rapid tests with results available immediately.”

Already done, Joe.  Over 70 million tests done to date.  Starting from scratch, not even having established method in place at the start and done on the fly.

“We'll make the medical supplies and protective equipment our country needs. And we'll make them here in America. So we will never again be at the mercy of China and other foreign countries in order to protect our own people.”

Already done, Joe, or being done.  Looks like your speechwriters copied this from Trump’s platform.

“We'll put the politics aside and take the muzzle off our experts so the public gets the information they need and deserve. The honest, unvarnished truth. They can deal with that.”

Already done, Joe.  Been done since March.  By expert, do you mean Fauci or Dr. Scott Atlas, who seems to have a better grip on things than Fauci?  Atlas recently jointed the Trump team as an advisor.

“We'll have a national mandate to wear a mask-not as a burden, but to protect each other.

It's a patriotic duty.”

Conform, or else!  It’s your patriotic duty!  You mustn’t resist the dictates of worke progressivism, and wearing masks is a sign of compliance!

“As God's children each of us have a purpose in our lives.”

So, why do you support abortion, Joe?  Why do you support the extinction of the lives of God’s children?

“He used to say, "Joey, I don't expect the government to solve my problems, but I expect it to understand them."”

Funny, but Joe’s platform is all about government solving people’s problems, contrary to his dad’s advice.

“That's why my economic plan is all about jobs, dignity, respect, and community. Together, we can, and we will, rebuild our economy. And when we do, we'll not only build it back, we'll build it back better.”

Trump’s already bringing it back.  But Joey, your dad said he didn’t expect government to solve his problems.

“With 5 million new manufacturing and technology jobs so the future is made in America.”

Obama said that manufacturing jobs weren’t coming back.  There is no magic wand to do that.  Except Trump found that magic wand.  Where’d this number of 5 million come from?

“We can, and we will, deal with climate change. It's not only a crisis, it's an enormous opportunity. An opportunity for America to lead the world in clean energy and create millions of new good-paying jobs in the process.”

A bone tossed to the progressive left, a.k.a. AOC wing.  This is where Joe calls for the elimination of fracking, and the use of natural gas, coal, and oil, without actually saying so explicitly.  How are manufacturing jobs going to come back without fossil fuels, and energy production?  Not what are they going to make, but without electrical power, how can they make?

“For our seniors, Social Security is a sacred obligation, a sacred promise made. The current president is threatening to break that promise.

I will not let it happen. If I'm your president, we're going to protect Social Security and Medicare. You have my word.”

This is old, boilerplate Democrat fearmongering.  “The Republicans are going to take away your social security and you Medicare!”    This is like an instinctive twitch.  Sentient Democrats, and there aren’t many, know that Trump is bullet-proof on these points.  A sign of Joe’s diminished political instincts.

“Under President Biden, America will not turn a blind eye to Russian bounties on the heads of American soldiers. Nor will I put up with foreign interference in our most sacred democratic exercise -- voting.”

The Russian bounties story looks more and more like a resistance-inspired information operation.  There never was any truth to it, and Trump was never briefed on it so sketchy it was.  The Russians are supplying the Taliban with arms, which they were using to kill Americans.  The Taliban needed to be bribed too?  The focus makes no sense.  Obama let the Russians alone in the expectation that Hillary would win.  Only now are the Democrats pissed.  The Russians didn’t then, and won’t now, interfere with voting – the Democrats want to queer that process with mail-in balloting.

“Remember seeing those neo-Nazis and Klansmen and white supremacists coming out of the fields with lighted torches? Veins bulging? Spewing the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the '30s?”

I’m not feeling the love, Joe.  Where’s that love we’re supposed to have for each other – or does that no apply to Trump’s deplorables?  And I double anyone under 90 years old actually remembers the anti-Semitic bile that spread across Europe in the 1930s!

“That in America, everyone, and I mean everyone, should be given the opportunity to go as far as their dreams and God-given ability will take them.”

But if America is that systemically racist hell-hole you speak of, how can minorities get those opportunities?  The system is rigged against them, right?  And you and Obama ran this rigged system for the eight years prior to Trump.

“And we are a good and decent people.”

Except for all those racists, neo-Nazis, Klansmen, anti-Semites, knee-on-neck police, gun-owners, climate deniers, and all those other irredeemable deplorables who support Trump.

“With passion and purpose, let us begin -- you and I together, one nation, under God -- united in our love for America and united in our love for each other.”

Except for all those racists, neo-Nazis, Klansmen, anti-Semites, police, QAnon, gun-owners, climate deniers, privileged oppressors, and irredeemable deplorabls who support Trump.

Biden’s speech may have been the best of his career, but that isn’t saying much.  It was loaded with twaddle and contradiction.  He gave no confidence that he isn’t going senile, just that he managed to hold it together for twenty-five minutes without stumbling, after a lot of practice.

Watching Joe give his speech was like watching a punch-drunk boxer react to the sound of a bell.

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Analysis of Speech by Obama at DNC

Vincent J. Curtis 

20 Aug 20

It was well said that if Bill Clinton was the first black president, Barack Obama was the first black Clinton.  How fake is Obama?  He invented characters in his autobiography, “Dreams from my Father.”  He was once said to be a great orator, but tht skill evaporated soon after his taking office in 2009.  Obama is another one of those who don’t try to convince by arguing from an agreed on set of facts.  He invests an alternate reality and defeats strawmen created by him.  He famously trolls his opponents, and his speech contained long passages of trolling Donald Trump.  He is supposed to be a constitutional lawyer and scholar, and as you will see below, he doesn’t even know the basic text of the constitution, nor what the constitution created.  He also ordered the spying on the Trump campaign in 2016, and tried to collapse the income Trump administration using America’s spy agencies and left-behind bureaucrats – the swamp.  But let’s start:

"So at minimum, we should expect a president to feel a sense of responsibility for the safety and welfare of all 330 million of us -- regardless of what we look like, how we worship, who we love, how much money we have -- or who we voted for.”

The reason Trump ordered the lockdown and resultant collapse of his brilliant economy was because he was told that otherwise 2.5 million Americans would die of the Wuhan virus.  Trump risked his re-election chances to save American lives.

“But we should also expect a president to be the custodian of this democracy.”

The United States is a constitutional republic with democratic characteristics.  The president swears to “preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States” and that constitution establishes a constitutional republic, not a democracy.  You’d expect a constitutional scholar to know this, but Obama apparently does not.

“We should expect that regardless of ego, ambition, or political beliefs, the president will preserve, protect, and defend the freedoms and ideals that so many Americans marched for and went to jail for; fought for and died for.”

Insofar as freedoms are protected in the Bill of Rights, Trump is a noted champion of the Second Amendment in particular, and has well safeguarded the First.  Obama, on the other hand, violated the constitutional rights of Carter Page as a means of bringing down Trump.  All that had to do with Obama’s enormous ego.

“I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously; that he might come to feel the weight of the office and discover some reverence for the democracy that had been placed in his care.”

This is pure trolling, as well as revealing enormous arrogance on his part.  Obama is counting on the ignorance of his audience to make the charge effective.

“For close to four years now, he's shown no interest in putting in the work; no interest in finding common ground; no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends; no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves.”

Again, more trolling of Trump.  Trump is famously a hard worker.  If Trump were ineffective, why would Democrats be so angry?  It was the Democrats and the Resistance (the swamp) who have batted away Trump’s outstretched hand.  Trump gave up a good life and lost a $1 billion in personal wealth in taking the office, and a lot of people gained in wealth as a result of his governance, especially those who have IRAs and 401(k)s and who depend on the stock market for retirement.  He reduced unemployment to 3.5% and wages were rising until the Wuhan virus hit.

“Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't. And the consequences of that failure are severe. 170,000 Americans dead. Millions of jobs gone while those at the top take in more than ever. Our worst impulses unleashed, our proud reputation around the world badly diminished, and our democratic institutions threatened like never before.”

Again, more trolling that reveals Obama’s arrogance and incredible ego.  Here again we see the attempt to blame Trump for the deaths caused by the Wuhan virus when he struggled mightily to minimize the effects of the virus.  It isn’t clear how democratic institutions were threatened by Trump, but by feckless Democrat governors and Mayors, most certainly.  These are keeping their publics locked down in the hope of beating Trump in November.

“Along with the experience needed to get things done, Joe and Kamala have concrete policies that will turn their vision of a better, fairer, stronger country into reality.”

Funny, but the details of the Biden platform never get mentioned, because it’s the Bernie Sanders platform, and there’s nothing in it thatwill make the United States a stronger country.

“They'll get this pandemic under control, like Joe did when he helped me manage H1N1 and prevent an Ebola outbreak from reaching our shores.”

The pandemic isn’t just under control, it’s over.  All that’s left of the fire is burning embers.  It’s Democrats their unions, and the Resistance that are keeping kids from going back to school.

“They'll rescue the economy,”

More alternate reality.  The economy is recovering fast and the stock market has returned to pre-lockdown levels.  Joe was mystified when the economy didn’t take off in 2010!

“whether it's the waitress trying to raise a kid on her own, or the shift worker always on the edge of getting laid off, or the student figuring out how to pay for next semester's classes.”

Once again, it’s Democrat governors and Mayors that are keeping a lockdown and preventing restaurants and schools from re-opening in the hopes of beating Trump.  Why would a student pay for next semester’s classes when they aren’t holding in class instruction?

“Joe and Kamala will restore our standing in the world”

More other-worldliness.  Trump has gone from one foreign policy success to another, and re-negotiated trade treaties left and right.  Obama’s foreign policy was an abject failure.  Everybody knows it, even Obama, which is why he’s asserting the opposite.

“But more than anything, what I know about Joe and Kamala is that they actually care about every American. And they care deeply about this democracy.”

Kamala doesn’t care about Catholics or conservatives.  Joe thinks he cares about every America, and also thinks they should be disarmed.  Once again, the constitutional expert confuses a democracy with a constitutional republic.

“They believe that no one -- including the president -- is above the law, and that no public official -- including the president -- should use their office to enrich themselves or their supporters.”

Like Clinton,, Obama became fabulously wealthy after leaving office.  Joe has enriched his siblings and his son Hunter by using his power of office.  As for being above the law, well, we’ll see what comes out of the Durham investigation.

“the Commander-in-Chief doesn't use the men and women of our military, who are willing to risk everything to protect our nation, as political props to deploy against peaceful protesters on our own soil”

No, he isn’t talking about the use of the National Guard to end the rioting and looting in Minneapolis, he’s talking about clearing the mob in front of the Whitehouse with police so that Trump could visit the burned out church across the street.  As explained by A-G Barr, but none of the Democrats on the infamous Jerry Nadler led House Judiciary Committee were listening.

“That's how the economy will keep getting skewed to the wealthy and well-connected, how our health systems will let more people fall through the cracks. That's how a democracy withers, until it's no democracy at all.”

The high tech magnates like Jeff Bezos and Zuckerberg have done very well under Trump.  These are Democrat censors.  Democracy doesn’t turn on health-care insurance, though Obama wants you to believe that.

“So that our kids won't grow up on an uninhabitable planet.”

How people can even exist, let alone grow up, on a planet that is ‘uninhabitable’ goes unexplained.  More of Obama’s alternate reality.

“To the young people who led us this summer, telling us we need to be better -- in so many ways, you are this country's dreams fulfilled.”

He would be referring to BLM and Antifa.  We can hear echoes of his line, “we are the ones we have been waiting for.” of his acceptance speech of 2009.  For a guy so concerned with democracy, he fails to recognize the totalitarian nature of BLM and Antifa.

“This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that's what it takes to win.”

BLM and Antifa, those two totalitarian movements, have been tearing at American society and structures all summer, and Democrat governors and Mayor have been enforcing anti-civil rights provisions to enforce a lockdown, all in the hopes of beating Trump in Novermber.

“So we have to get busy building it up -- by pouring all our effort into these 76 days, and by voting like never before -- for Joe and Kamala, and candidates up and down the ticket, so that we leave no doubt about what this country we love stands for”

Voting the machine ticket is Obama’s idea of what this country we love stands for.

The delivery of the speech was flat and uninspiring.  Obama failed as president, and he knows it.  Trump is a consequential president, and Obama can’t stand the comparison.  I doubt the speech will ignite any enthusiasm for the Biden-Harris ticket.

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Analysis of Kamala Harris Speech to DNC

Vincent J. Curtis 

20 Aug 20 

Kamala Harris is an unprincipled careerist, with a wide nasty streak.  Brief flashes of that streak appeared in her acceptance speech at the DNC last night, but for the most part the speech was an introduction of herself to the American electorate.  Her policy comments were bland and lacking in focus.  She took a few shots at Trump, and at the country she hopes to govern.  There are two parts to America: the deplorable part and the Elect, and everybody should be Elect.  See below: 

“She raised us to be proud, strong Black women. And she raised us to know and be proud of our Indian heritage.”

This is one of those cloying, Clintonian fables that aren’t verifiable and have a strange odor to them.  Why would her East Indian mother raise Kamala and her sister to be strong Black women after she divorced her Jamaican father?  Why not just raise her as an American, proud of her Indian heritage?  Identity politics didn’t really exist in those days, and her recently immigrated mother wouldn’t be aware of the finer points of intra-American ethnicity.

“I know a predator when I see one.”

To a Democrat audience, this is a shot at Donald Trump.  However, it raises uncomfortable questions about Joe Biden, who has recently as well as for a long time been accused of predation.  So, how good is her judgement?  Remember, she’s an unprincipled careerist, and Joe picked her.

“…we are united by the fundamental belief that every human being is of infinite worth, deserving of compassion, dignity and respect.”

A statement like this you’d expect from a pro-lifer, but Harris is stridently pro-abortion.  Anybody who countenances the killing of babies would say anything, and here that blatant contradiction is tossed out again, as a moral distraction.  Did I say she was unprincipled?

“Donald Trump's failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods.”

Harris accuses Trump of being responsible for the deaths of many thousands, a conclusion reached by an undeclared, unexplored system of ethics with a weird view of moral agency.  Such an accusation would be more true of Gov Andrew Cuomo or New York, a Democrat.  The statement is just an arrogant piece of drivel.  Who is she to make a case for a “failure of leadership?”  The virus killed people, and the shutdown in response to it killed livelihoods.  Now, Trump is on the other side of the shutdown, and it is Democrats who are killing livelihoods in the hope that doing so will contribute to Trump’s defeat in November.  But people are starting to notice.

“And while this virus touches us all, let's be honest, it is not an equal opportunity offender. Black, Latino and Indigenous people are suffering and dying disproportionately. 

This is not a coincidence. It is the effect of structural racism.

Of inequities in education and technology, health care and housing, job security and transportation.”

The virus and structural racism work hand-in-hand to kill minorities disproportionately.  How can one endure such a racist country?  She forgets that Obama and Biden governed America from 2009-2017, and they must have done nothing about structural racism.  In his less than four years, Trump has called attention to the problems of the black and minority communities.  The disproportionality comes from a prevalence of diabetes and obesity in those communities.  How great is America?  The poor suffer diseases of being over-fed!

“The injustice in reproductive and maternal health care. In the excessive use of force by police. And in our broader criminal justice system.

This virus has no eyes, and yet it knows exactly how we see each other—and how we treat each other.”

More on the hateful aspects of America, that went untouched during the Obama-Biden years.  A weird statement about the capabilities of a virus.  It has no eyes and no brain, yet is sees and knows.  Biology is not her strong suit.

“And let's be clear—there is no vaccine for racism. We've gotta do the work.”

So, racism isn’t the fault of Donald Trump after all.  It’s in all of us, except those of the Elect.  Racial tensions were exacerbated during the Obama-Biden years.  BLM started in 2015 after the death of Michael Brown.  Don’t forget Obama used to work for ACORN, a Marxist Anarchist offshoot of the Saul D. Alinsky organization in Chicago.

“Joe and I believe that we can build that Beloved Community, one that is strong and decent, just and kind. One in which we all can see ourselves.”

This is where she starts talking about the Community of the Elect, a Utopia in which all good people live, and which the damned deplorables live outside.

“…we've shown that, when we vote, we expand access to health care, expand access to the ballot box, and ensure that more working families can make a decent living.”

Voting, per se, does none of those things.  But, she argues against mail=in balloting this time out.  (To expand access to the ballot box, i.e. mail-in, you’ve got to vote this time to without mail-in to get that expansion.)  If you want working families to make a decent living, you’ve got to vote for Trump because he’s the guy that brought jobs to the working class, as well as rising wages.  Trump’s policy in the second term is to expand manufacturing in America.  He found the magic wand that Obama said didn’t exist.

“I'm inspired by a new generation of leadership. You are pushing us to realize the ideals of our nation, pushing us to live the values we share: decency and fairness, justice and love.”

Again, weird.  Joe Biden is anything but a new generation of leadership.  If she is referring to Antifa and BLM, she is once again applying her weird system of ethics that finds Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York as examples of decency, fairness,, and love.

“Years from now, this moment will have passed. And our children and our grandchildren will look in our eyes and ask us: Where were you when the stakes were so high?”

Weirdly similar to the statement by General George S. Patton: “What did you do during the great World War II.  You won’t have to say, well, I shovelled shit in Louisiana.”  Hopefully, the people Kamala is trying to motivate will say, “we were stuck in lockdown, wearing masks, and staying apart from one another.  We were too afraid to go to the polls and vote.”

The Harris speech was twenty minutes in length.  It was a bland, featureless introduction of herself, and she didn’t say much else controversial or significant.  It made boilerplate appeals to the prejudices of Democrat and SJW fanatics.

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Analysis of Bill Clinton’s Speech to DNC

 Vincent J. Curtis

19 Aug 20

Bill and Hillary Clinton contend to be the biggest liars in American political history.  Don’t take my word for it, Bill Safire, long-time columnist for the New York Times called Hillary a “pathological liar” after watching her testify about the Whitewater scandal.  Bill too is legendary 

Bill lets on an “aw shucks” persona, and you can tell he’s lying when he gets that smirk on his face, from his thinking that he’s putting one over his audience.  Bill’s technique is to insist on and talk about an alternative reality, one that depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.  Bill was suppressing his smirk throughout the remarks below:

“A presidential election is the world's most important job interview. At the end we hire a leader to help us solve problems, create opportunities, and give our kids better tomorrows.”

Joe Biden is hiding in his basement and not taking questions.  Some "interview."  He’s turned over the platform to the Sanders-AOC wing of the party.  Mentally, Joe’s so diminished that Kamala Harris will take over as president during the term on the basis of the 25^th Amendment.

“How did Donald Trump respond? At first he said the virus was under control and would soon disappear. When it didn't, he was on TV every day bragging on what a great job he was doing, while scientists waited to give us vital information. When he didn't like the expert advice he was given, he ignored it.”

To untangle this mess, Trump relied on the advice of experts, particularly Drs. Fauci and Brix.  Trump is the elected official, not the medical experts.  When it became obvious that his medical experts were too cautious for their reputations, Trump began pushing to end the lockdown and reopen the economy.  The experts proved wrong about the size of the pandemic, and it is now obvious that economic matters take priority.

“Only when COVID exploded in even more states did he encourage people to wear masks.”

Early on, Dr. Facui and the other experts like the Surgeon-General said masks were useless in the hands of the general public.  They changed their minds in accordance with political winds.  Now, mask-wearing is a harmless sign of compliance to progressive social pressure.  Mask wearing if futile, and everyone knows it.

“Donald Trump says we're leading the world. Well, we are the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate triple.”

When the unemployment rate is 3.5 %, it’s easy to triple.  If the unemployment rate is 7 %, doubling it is the same as tripling 3.5 %.

“Now you have to decide whether to renew his contract or hire someone else. If you want a president who defines the job as spending hours a day watching TV and zapping people on social media, he's your man. Denying, distracting, and demeaning works great if you're trying to entertain and inflame. But in a real crisis, it collapses like a house of cards.”

If all Trump does is watch TV and tweet, what harm is doing?  Biden would have been at sea during the pandemic.  Trump marshaled the government and American industry to produce ventilators, PPE, testing, therapeutics, and vaccines.  He gave a sense of urgency and direction.  America will have a vaccine ready to go by the end of the year, which would never have happened but for Trump’s energy, drive, and understanding of the capabilities of America, which only needed direction.  Joe, in his present condition, couldn’t even think of this.

“…you've got to go to work and deal with the facts.”

Whenever Clinton is talking about facts, you know he’s talking fantasy..

“a go-to-work president. A down-to-earth, get-the-job-done guy. A man with a mission: to take responsibility, not shift the blame; concentrate, not distract; unite, not divide.”

Joe is hiding in his basement, not campaigning, which is his proper work.  Trump is exceptionally down-to-earth, which is why he’s hated in Washington and by the elites.  Trump has gotten the job done, “promises made, promises kept.”  Trump has had the mission: to drain the swamp.  He’s taken responsibility, as Bill’s complaining above about not listening to the experts.  Trump has focused on getting things accomplished, despite Democrat distractions.  Trump has many times offered an olive branch to the Democrats, but they have to “resist” because they’re not the ones exercising the power.

“How? He's given us smart detailed plans to invest in areas vital to our future: innovative financing for factories and small businesses; good jobs in green energy and conservation to combat climate change; a modern infrastructure that brings small town and rural America the connectivity and investment others take for granted; and a plan to ensure that Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, women, immigrants, and other communities left behind are full participants in the economy and our society.”

In this passel of policy wonkery, Bill fails to mention that Joe’s plan is to eliminate shareholder capitalism.  The innovative financing has to come from a socialist government..  There are no good jobs in green energy, but plenty in franking oil and natural gas.  Joe plans to shut down American energy production to combat a fictitious climate change emergency, throwing millions out of work.  Bill, Obama and Biden are all globalists, who oversaw the destruction of American industry and the shipping of jobs and wealth to China.  All this is sweet-sounding hooey.

“Joe Biden wants to build an economy far better suited to our changing world.”

The world is changing on account of Donald Trump.  Trump plans to bring home strategic industries and capabilities from China.  Joe thinks China is not threat.

He'll work to make sure that your paycheck reflects your contribution to, and your stake in, a growing economy. In this job interview, the difference is stark. You know what Donald Trump will do with four more years: blame, bully, and belittle. And you know what Joe Biden will do: build back better.”

I’d be leery of somebody else deciding what my paycheck to be, being reflective of his opinion of my contribution and stake in a growing economy.  Especially since it’s Bernie Sander’s judgement and value-system behind the evaluation.  We see again the “job interview” metaphor, and Joe isn’t doing many interviews these days!  I like what Trump could do with four more years, and I like the pain he’s going to cause the swamp.  Joe will build back the swamp, bigger and better!

“It's Trump's "Us vs. Them" America against Joe Biden's America, where we all live and work together.”

Funny how that division disappears if you just submit to the swamp.  If there’s division, it’s because Trump’s America doesn’t want to be ruled by the swamp, and swamp creatures are beside themselves at their loss of power 

In a strange way, I wonder if Bill isn’t subverting Biden’s candidacy.  The talk of the job interview, the energy Joe will bring to the job, the things so at odds with observable facts,  ring so hollow that it might give independents pause and cause to wonder.  Meanwhile, Bill ingratiated himself with the party faithful.  Bill is that diabolical, and jealous of his singularity as a Democrat president.

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Analysis of Michelle Obama's Speech

Vincent J. Curtis

18 Aug 20

Let’s start things off with a cloying lie, shall we?

“I am here tonight because I love this country with all my heart, and it pains me to see so many people hurting.” 

Michelle famously hated her country, until it elected her husband president.  I can believe it does pain her to see so many people hurting, but there’s little personally that she’s doing about it.  In the end, I can believe that now she loves America, racist hell-hole that it is.  (We’ll see this sentiment expressed later.)

“…four years ago, too many people chose to believe that their votes didn’t matter. Maybe they were fed up. Maybe they thought the outcome wouldn’t be close. Maybe the barriers felt too steep. Whatever the reason, in the end, those choices sent someone to the Oval Office who lost the national popular vote by nearly 3,000,000 votes.”

This is her explanation for why Hillary lost in 2016.  It’s the voters’ fault.

“We’d secured the right to healthcare for 20,000,000 people.”

A deliberate mischaracterization.  Healthcare for all was already a right in America before Obamacare; all the ACA did was enforce the purchase of health care insurance on the public, i.e. those 20 million uninsured.

“Four years later, the state of this nation is very different. More than 150,000 people have died, and our economy is in shambles because of a virus that this president downplayed for too long.”

 

Only the most diehard believers accept her implications that Trump killed those people and ruined the economy, that he built into a juggernaut with the lowest unemployment rates ever, wages rising, and the stock market at record highs.  Trump to the Wuhan virus very seriously, banning travellers from China on January 31^st, while Joe Biden and Co. were accusing him of xenophobia.   BTW, roughly 2.6 million people die in America each year from all causes, just so you know.

“It has left millions of people jobless. Too many have lost their healthcare; too many are struggling to take care of basic necessities like food and rent; too many communities have been left in the lurch to grapple with whether and how to open our schools safely.”

It is true that the lockdown put millions out of work, but the economy is recovering quickly, and would be recovering even quicker if Democrat governors ended lockdowns they have mandated on their states.  Millions haven’t lost their healthcare, except due to lockdown measures that ended all but essential procedures.  Special unemployment benefits has kept people from being evicted from Federal housing for lack of paying rent, and no one is going hungry in America.  Those communities left in the lurch are the responsibility of state governors, and Democrat governors think they can help defeat Trump by vicious measures against their own communities.  Including keeping kids out of school unnecessarily.

“Internationally, we’ve turned our back, not just on agreements forged by my husband, but on alliances championed by presidents like Reagan and Eisenhower.”

I think she means NATO, and that alliance was invigorated at the instigation of Trump.  He told them, basically, to fish or cut bait in providing for their own defense.  Obama tried the same thing early in his presidency, but NATO partners never took him seriously and didn’t do as he asked.

“George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and a never-ending list of innocent people of color continue to be murdered, stating the simple fact that a Black life matters is still met with derision from the nation’s highest office.”

We’re back to lying again.  George Floyd was a criminal who was arrested for passing counterfeit currency and had a dangerous dose of fentanyl and meth in his system at the time of his arrest, and did contribute to his demise.  He wasn’t “innocent.”   The number of unarmed black men killed by police in 2019 was 14, while the number of blacks murdered was 7,500, a goodly number in Michelle’s Chicago.  These murders are 15:1 black on black.  The list isn’t never ending, but this racist hell-hole is the country Michelle affirms she loves.  The cynical fact is that Black Lives don’t Matter, only politically convenient deaths matter.  The BLM movement is a self-admitted Marxist political organization that has expressly committed itself to defeating Donald Trump in November.  I snort in derision too at the deliberate conflation of an empty slogan with a political movement.

“Empathy: that’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. The ability to walk in someone else’s shoes; the recognition that someone else’s experience has value, too.”

Empathy was the thing Barack Obama wanted from his judges, not adherence to the law and the constitution, and look how that worked out.  What a president needs is good judgement.

“But right now, kids in this country are seeing what happens when we stop requiring empathy of one another. They’re looking around wondering if we’ve been lying to them this whole time about who we are and what we believe.”

Empathy is the last thing that BLM and Antifa believe in.  Maybe Michelle lied to her kids, but I doubt it.  She certainly is lying to mine.  BLM and Antifa are products of her side of the political spectrum.  And they share the same goal: defeating Trump.

“They see people shouting in grocery stores, unwilling to wear a mask to keep us all safe. They see people calling the police on folks minding their own business just because of the color of their skin. “

Obey, or else! She demands.  Masking doesn’t keep anyone safe, it is a sign of compliance that gives a false sense of security.  As for calling police for the color of their skin, that would be “Karen” a New York liberal in Central Park who was pissed that a Black man wasn’t wearing a mask.  He wasn’t complying, so she called the cops in a manner that would get their attention.

“They see our leaders labeling fellow citizens enemies of the state while emboldening torch-bearing white supremacists. They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages, and pepper spray and rubber bullets are used on peaceful protestors for a photo-op.”

The first principle clause is pure psychological projection, and where the torch carrying white supremacists came from, I don’t know.  But more of the racist hell-hole rhetoric describing the country she loves.  The AP pointed out the irony of Michelle blaming Trump for using the cages built by her husband, and used for the same purpose.  Peaceful people don’t get pepper sprayed, hit with rubber bullets, and the photo-op thing was a myth debunked by A-G Barr during his testimony before the Nadler Committee.

“A nation that’s underperforming not simply on matters of policy but on matters of character. And that’s not just disappointing; it’s downright infuriating.”

Completely meaningless rhetoric.  How does a country ‘underperform?’ How does it underperform on a matter of character, or on a matter of policy?  It doesn’t; it just sounds bad.  To make sure you get it, she is disappointed and infuriated too.

“He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is.”

Trump has done the job, and he wasn’t in over his head.  He was the right man at the right time; it was Obama who was in over his head due to lack of experience.  What does it mean to say, ‘he cannot be who we need him to be for us.’ Huh?  It is what it is.

“So if you take one thing from my words tonight, it is this: If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can, and they will if we don’t make a change in this election. If we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have got to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it.”

Things can always get worse, and my crystal ball says that is much more likely if Biden gets elected instead of Trump.  If American lives depend on Joe Biden, boy are they in trouble!  But calling one’s life into doubt if you don’t elect Biden is fear and control technique.

“I know Joe. He is a profoundly decent man, guided by faith. He was a terrific vice president. He knows what it takes to rescue an economy, beat back a pandemic, and lead our country. And he listens. He will tell the truth and trust science. He will make smart plans and manage a good team. And he will govern as someone who’s lived a life that the rest of us can recognize.”

Joe is a husk of his former self, which was none too good to begin with.  He isn’t guided by faith: he’s nominally a Catholic who supports abortion.  Joe thinks that you revive and economy through higher taxes and more regulation.  Biden would have floundered in the pandemic, not knowing what to do.  Trump mobilized U.S. expertise to pull through, with ventilators, testing, masks, therapeutics, and vaccines.  Michelle wouldn’t know science if she tripped over it.  Would she listen to Fauci or Atlas?  She wouldn’t know what to say.  Biden spent 50 years in Washington, as a Senator and VP.  That’s not a life I’d recognize.  But Trump seems to relate to the working man, having worked with and hired so many.

“And when the horrors of systemic racism shook our country and our consciences, millions of Americans of every age, every background rose up to march for each other, crying out for justice and progress.

And if we want to keep the possibility of progress alive in our time, if we want to be able to look our children in the eye after this election, we have got to reassert our place in American history.”

She turns again to the George Floyd riots that were organized by the extreme left, BLM and Antifa.  Systemic racism characterizes the country she loves.  The reference to progress is a dog-whistle to the left.  The re-asserting our place in American history is a piece of rhetorical bafflegab.

There it is.  A piece of rhetorical treacle, full of sweet sounding lies.

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Marxism wrecking students' education

Vincent J. Curtis

13 Aug 20

The Spectator published a letter in which the author described how things actually work on the left (and isn't getting reported.)  The matter in question was the Anarchist campaign to discredit the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board.  In particular, the author mentioned how the Board ought to be listening to students and rectifying social matters which, if they really exist, are outside the control of the Board.

The letter by Andrea Rado was certainly informative.  It explains how the race hustling organizations work together to create “a cacophony of stinking fish heard all round the world.”  For all the activism and organizing of students, they seem not to have students’ true priorities at heart.

The School Board doesn’t exist to “listen to student voices.”  It doesn’t exist to “rectify long standing problems of racial inequality.”  The school system exists to teach and to educate.  This means the student does the listening and, hopefully, the learning.  One learns more by listening than by talking.

If a student is inclined to rectify long standing problems or racial inequality, they need to start with an education.  Regrettably, the education they’re getting nowadays is poor having been compromised by Marxism, and if students want something to get exercised over, they should be demanding an end to Marxism and a revival of western enlightenment in education.  Marxism isn’t the climax of the Enlightenment, it’s its antithesis.

If a student finds the HWDSB that intolerable, rather than spoil the experience for others, the discontented should consider finding an another school, or simply quit school and find a job.

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Defund Police Campaign Can't Work in Ontario

Vincent J. Curtis

13 Aug 20

Today, the Spectator's editorial surpassed itself in infantilism.  The editors apparently hadn't read their own newspaper, and at times seemed unaware of what they had written a few paragraphs before.  The result was a kind of "can't we all just be friends" by capitulating to the Defund the Police movement.  At least, give them a change to whale away at Police Chief Eric Girt.  Maybe that'll satisfy them, and make it all go away.  The answer to this plea was found elsewhere in the newspaper.

It must have been bring your child to work day at the Spectator, so juvenile was the editorial.  The author(s), apparently, don’t even read their own damn newspaper. 

The editors seem to want Chief Eric Girt to appear before city council to explain the facts of life in policing Hamilton, Ontario.  Council is being deluged by an organized campaign to “defund the police.”  Purblind to the game being played, some on council and the editors wrongly think his appearance to answer questions would satisfy the complainants.

As reported by Teviah Moro, Chief Girt doesn’t work for city council; he works for the Hamilton Police Board.  The city is obliged to supply the police budget, and disputes between council and the board are resolved at the provincial level.  Broad policing policy is set at the provincial level and those policies are applied at the civic level by the local police.  A measure of local sensitivity is established through the composition of the Police Services Board, with three of its five members being city councillors, and another a civilian city appointment.  The Chair of the Board is the Mayor.

Hence, when the editorial calls for clear and open communications between the board and “local councillors elected to represent Hamiltonians”, what are you talking about?  The board is practically a subcommittee of council.

An assortment of Marxist, Anarchists, and fools are going to ask council to defund the police, impossible by provincial law.  There is no need for a policeman to attend this pantomime, except as security.

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