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By Rich Kozlovich 

 

Well, it looks like we have another Road to Damascus convert.  Alan Dershowitz has dropped out of the Democrat party for its blatant antisemitism.  Okay, I get that, but he just now noticed?  What about all the other vile stuff they've been promoting for all of his life, and he never noticed that?  Amazing!  Well, this epiphany doesn't make up for all the damage he's supported for all these years, and at his age, he won't have to wait long to answer for it.   

The Chaney's, daughter and father, have gone off the deep end supporting Kamala, because Trump is such a danger to democracy, and Bush says he's not endorsing anyone.  It's not just Trump either, Liz is also supporting Ted Cruz's opponent.  

 

So, what's that all mean?   

 

It means they support antisemitism, higher prices for all the essentials, higher energy costs, higher taxes, outrageous theft by the federal government on "unrealized capital gains" , more regulations, more spending, more debt, more government bureaucracy, they love the CCP, and less freedom.  But it's Trump who is the danger to democracy.  The Chaney's have no shame, and could care less what their choice of ignorant arrogance would do to America, and now conservatives will shun them and the left will laugh at them.  What fools, right along with Mitt Romney, Dennis Kucinich, and Susan Collins. 

You know that little voice in your head that keeps you from saying the things you shouldn't say?  Yeah, well, I don't have that, but entirely too many pretty good writers do.  Let's start out with this foundational reality!   Polls are crap, and it drives me crazy when conservatives cite polls in states claiming Kamala Harris is ahead, which Brian C. Joondeph a regular writer at American Thinker does.  However, he also had this to say about Colorado:

Surprisingly illegal immigration and the border fall far behind the economy. That may change as news of Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment buildings in Aurora Colorado, Chicago, Dallas, and New York City makes headlines. Many other cities likely have or will face the same.  An illegal alien truck driver killed a Colorado man and received less than a one-year prison sentence. Deportation? Fat chance in sanctuary Colorado. Voters may change the 2024 election mantra to “It’s the border, stupid.”

 

Then we have The Harris Mystique by Matthew Continetti outlining how Kamala has crashed and burned consistently and yet is now running for President saying the Pravda media is totally committed to Kamala, with "84 percent positive coverage" in her first month as a candidate, a far cry from Trump’s 89 percent negative coverage during the same period", but claims, "worshipful press coverage doesn’t fully explain the reversal of Harris’s fortunes." I disagree.  Any upswing, which I don't really believe exists, is a massive nationally organized effort by the left following the Goebbels philosophy of keep repeating lies until they become truth. 

 

The Pravda media is so contemptible and so vile no corruption of thought, lies, or the twisting of facts will stand in the way of this organized effort to totally scam the public into believing Kamala is sharp as a tack..... ooops!    Isn't that what they told the world about Biden?  Then the very next day after his debate with Trump demanded he drop out of the race because he was a babbling idiot.  Remarkable!  You gotta really admire those media guys, they really know a babbling idiot when they see one.  That's meant as a snark for those who don't get it.  

The Biden/Harris administration imposed almost $1.4 trillion in regulations, wants to end right to work laws, and tax the Nation to the tune of another $5 trillion of new taxes over 10 years, and this is the trend in each and every state run by the Democrats, and seemingly the left loves it.  Those a just a few of the stunningly unpleasant realities of Kamala Harris the Pravda media will continue to hide, misdirect, forget about, twist the facts, lie, and falsely accuse other's of doing the things the Obama cabal are in reality actually doing.   They are cause of higher costs.  An administration so filled with incompetence and stupidity, I would think they should scare everyone with their treasonous actions and decisions. 

Now here's something really resonating with conservatives.  Trump has promised to purge the federal bureaucracy by creating "..... a Government Efficiency Commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government — and making recommendations for drastic reforms.” And that needs done badly.  

We know the very young are rarely impacted by covid, and we also know the damage these false vaccines represent to those who've taken the shots, and the damage is serious. So, what's the deep state wanting to do, inject very small children with these false vaccine, gene altering chemical compounds.  Some one needs to go to jail over this, and it's long overdue for Americans to recognize these "seven myths" of our medical system, and the damage these "myths' represent.   

In western civilization the idea of a religious war is anathema.  There's only one problem with that.  Western civilization has no say in that.  If a religious movement decides to declare war based on their religious principles, then it's a religious war, and Islam has been at war with civilization for all of it's existence, including today!  We really do need to get that.

The lawfare claims by the left against Trump are starting to come unglued.  A Manhattan attorney working for..or with.. Bragg admitted it was all a corrupt farce for personal political gain for Bragg.  Judge Merchan has decided to put off his sentencing until after the election in order make sure there's no appearance of election interference.  Hogwash, this whole trail was clearly set to do just that. It's being claimed he fears sentence him now because no matter what schemes he's hatched, Trump's polls skyrocketed, and he fears sentencing him will help in his re-election bid.  Well, there may be some truth to that, but what I believe is he sees the handwriting on the wall, and he knows if trump is elected there's going to be an RICO investigation on all this lawfare corruption nationwide, and he'll be a part of it. 

 

 The Congressional Black Caucus has issued new guidelines for corporations to use in adopting their diversity, equity and inclusion policies, as if this is anything but a scam.  DEI is nothing short of the acceptance of incompetence without consequence, and they need to be told to shove it.  If they really want to improve the conditions in black America they need to stop lying and recognize it's not racism that's black America's problem.  It's single parent families, and the black churches bear a large degree of responsibility for that.

 

For years politics in black America was centered in black churches, assuming that's still true, what have we seen? Radicals like Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Amos Brown, and others, blaming all of their problems on whites. Black academics are equally to blame. Not one word about illegitimacy, the real root of their problems.

If you want a stable successful society, you start with a stable foundation, the family, made up of a man, a woman, and their children. Let them address that, and then we won't have to talk about DEI. 

Remember when the Pravda media highlighted .....  24/7 ...with outrage I might add... every time Bush went to his home in Texas insisting he was neglecting his duties and responsibility as President?    Well, it appears Ole Joe spent over forty percent of his time on vacation, and no one noticed.  Imagine that.  

Ya just gotta really hand it to those media boys, they really know what's going on.  Unless they don't what you to know what's going on, and don't want you to know what's going on.  

Now, who could find fault wit that?

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The Improvidence of Providence, Rhode Island

Daniel Greenfield December 16, 2022 @ Sultan Knish Blog 

During the long hot summer of Black Lives Matter race riots, Providence’s Mayor Jorge Elorza announced a truth and reparations commission, accusing the city and all of Rhode Island of perpetrating “generations of pain and violence and systemic oppression”.

The leftist racist, who has been steadily sending the city down the drain, urged the 33% of white people still left in Providence to “heal by discussing and accepting these uncomfortable truths”.

The commission would not be looking into Elorza’s alleged systemic racism which resulted in a lawsuit by the city’s former Department of Public Works director claiming that he was fired over a principled refusal to hire unqualified people “because of their ethnic backgrounds” while being banned from hiring “qualified applicants of a different ethnic background”.

These “uncomfortable truths” were not on the truth and reconciliation menu.

Instead, Elorza pushed forward with a plan to offer $10 million in reparations even though Rhode Island had actually been the first state to ban slavery and was founded by Roger Williams: an opponent of slavery. The tiny state had mobilized 25,236 soldiers in the Civil War including the 11th United States Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment. 1,771 Rhode Islanders paid the ultimate price and twenty were awarded the Medal of Honor.

That, not Eloriza’s $10 million grift, is what actually fighting racism looks like.

“These funds move us one step further towards closing the present-day racial wealth and equity gap,” Mayor Elorza falsely claimed.

With 28,834 black people living in Providence, that $10 million amounts to a $346 check for every black person. That’s enough to cover a week of groceries for a family of four.

Meanwhile, only “14 percent of Providence students are proficient in English and 6.8 percent are proficient in math.” The good news is that Providence students are so illiterate that they don’t even realize that Rhode Island wasn’t a member of the Confederacy.

And they know so little of basic mathematics that they have no idea how much $346 is.

Elorza’s racist virtue signaling doesn’t close any gaps. And it’s now under fire because it’s insufficiently racist since poor white people can also apply. That’s because the racist mayor chose to use cash from Biden’s inflationary $1.9 trillion stimulus plan which can’t exclude non-black applicants. Like the mayor himself, his reparations have failed in every possible way.

“You can’t just throw around $10 million for this-and-that program and call it reparations, because then it will be done without ever really having a conversation about what repairing the harm would look like,” a member of Elorza’s African American Ambassador Group complained.

Elorza’s racist crusade has thus far toppled a Columbus statue, and eliminated “plantations” from the city’s historic name in time for Juneteenth: even though the name had nothing to do with slavery. But expecting a city of illiterates to know that may be asking too much.

Meanwhile, Providence still has a 23% poverty rate: more than double than the state average.

The 92% of minority students in the Providence School District, most of them Hispanic, have reading proficiency scores that are half that of the state average and math scores that are almost a third that of the state average.

Homicides rose for three straight years: hitting a high that hadn’t been seen in a decade.

In 2021, 75 people were shot and 23 were killed in Providence. More than half of the entire state’s murders in 2020 took place in Providence even though the city holds only a fifth of Rhode Island’s population.

Asked to explain this phenomenon, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha pointed out that, “If you shoot 22 rounds into the air, the odds of hitting someone go dramatically up, which in part leads to more outcomes resulting in death.” This is as undeniably true as it is irrelevant.

More relevantly, pro-crime policies, like those championed by Mayor Jorge Elorza, such as the Providence Community-Police Relations Act, have worsened crime in the area. To paraphrase the attorney general fired by the Trump administration, If you keep pandering to criminals, the odds of them committing crimes go up which leads to more outcomes resulting in death.

Mayor Jorge Elorza and his allies keep blaming racism for Providence’s miserable state, but Democrats have run Providence for 86 of the last 100 years.

If there’s any systemic racism, it was their system. And it’s so now more than ever.

Elorza has been running Providence into the ground for the last 7 years. Whose fault is all the misery? Taking down a Columbus statue or requesting a report about events 400 years in the past is a convenient cover-up for who’s actually in office now. And it ain’t Christopher Columbus.

Providence has a Democrat mayor and an all-Democrat council.

In 2019, former Providence City Council President Lou Aponte, one of the most enduring politicians on that body, pleaded guilty to felony embezzlement. In 2018, Majority Leader Kevin Jackson was sentenced to a year in prison for stealing over $100,000 from a youth charity.

What Providence really needs isn’t a truth and reconciliation commission, but a commission to stamp out the corruption and organized crime that the state and city have become infamous for.

Behind all the racist virtue signaling are uncomfortable truths about crime and demographics.

A Matter of Truth, the truth and reconciliation report commissioned by the mayor, blames racism for black people getting COVID and quotes BLM co-founder Alicia Garza boasting that “black communities have the power not just to save the country, but to lead the country.”

Not so much in Providence, Rhode Island, where Latinos have long since become the dominant minority group. Mayor Jorge Elorza is the son of Guatemalan immigrants. Of the 15 city council members, all Democrats, 6 are Latino, some of African heritage, but only one is black American.

And behind the virtue signaling and wokeness are some ugly realities, Councilwoman Carmen Castillo, the Dominican immigrant who became the subject of a documentary for going from hotel cleaning lady to the city council, was charged in a hit and run crash. While Castillo might have faced a 6-month prison sentence and a ban on running for public office, instead she got a slap on the wrist with no prison time and a $3,500 payout to the victim.

Asking about that would be racist. Obviously.

Castillo defeated NAACP president Gerard Catala who faces an investigation over campaign finance violations including depositing a political contribution to his personal bank account.

But that’s just Providence politics which brings together corrupt Democrats of all races and creeds to screw over the illiterates who can’t read or add, but keep voting for them.

Even after they’re dead.

Providence’s Latino political elites keep pushing the ‘white guilt’ button while using black people as human shields. Most of the city’s minority population isn’t black and sleazy racists like Elorza are using false accusations of racism to seize power and distract attention from their abuses.

America isn’t racist, but Providence’s political elites are as corrupt as they are racist. 

A Look At The Pipeline For Future "Diverse" Tech Workers, Professionals And Corporate Executives

September 11, 2021/ Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian

As we have seen, corporate American has now fully bought in to the mantra that “any racial disparities are the result of racist policies.” See Friday’s post focusing on Google for one example of a company whose “antiracist” training materials use just that language. Essentially every major institution in the country — corporations, professional firms, universities, you name it — is on a mission to get the percentage of minorities in high-paying technical, professional and executive positions up to the percentage that those minorities represent of the population as a whole. That goal particularly applies to African Americans.

Yet despite all the pledges and commitments, change occurs at a glacial pace. As Friday’s post reported, the likes of Googe and Facebook, despite seemingly having adopted “diversity and inclusion” as the single most important focus of their operations, have only moved the ratios of black “tech” workers and executives by about a percentage point or two over eight years of reporting data. At Apple, the percentage of black “tech” workers has actually gone down by 2% since 2016. In my own field of major law firms, some fifty years of affirmative action have only brought the percentage of black partners overall to about 2-3%.

Perhaps there is a problem that the pipeline is just not producing a sufficient pool of potential candidates for all major institutions to hire 13% blacks into all high-ranking positions at the same time. The pipeline I’m talking about is the nation’s K-12 schools. Among all of our societal institutions, those K-12 schools are the ones most firmly in the control of the progressive left. Whether it be the administrators, the teachers unions, or the teachers themselves, these are the people who most constantly vociferously accuse the rest of us of being “racists” and “white supremacists.” (Note that the term “white supremacist,” as used by the progressive left, is by no means limited to people of white ethnicity, as California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder has recently learned.). Surely then, of all institutions, the the very holy and pious K-12 schools have fixed racism by now.

To get an idea how the K-12 schools are doing in fixing racism, let’s look at some data from what’s called the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Since many readers may be unfamiliar with NAEP, let me give some background. NAEP is a Congressionally-sponsored project, administered by the federal Department of Education. The NAEP people call themselves the “nation’s report card.” Supposedly, the goal is to get an idea whether schools in a city or state, or in the nation as a whole, are performing better or worse over time. These are national tests given every two years to a sample of kids in the fourth and eighth grades. The sample is relatively small (e.g., only about 3000 in New York State). The test is not “high-stakes”: no results are reported to individual students, and no life consequences, such as admission to selective schools, depend on the outcome.

NAEP has a level they call “proficient,” which they define as “demonstrat[ing] solid academic performance and competency over challenging subject matter.” If that definition seems unspecific, it may help to learn that when you look at their data nationwide, roughly half the test takers on any given test score at or above the “proficient” level. In other words, although they don’t call it that, it is roughly the mean. For each test administration, results are reported in two categories, math and reading.

Most of the NAEP data is reported only on a state level. However, beginning in 2001 they started specifically testing certain large urban districts in a program called the “Trial Urban District Assessment” or TUDA. The TUDA program started with only 6 districts, but gradually has expanded until it reached 27 in the 2017 and 2019 administrations of the NAEP tests. (The 2021 results have not yet been released.). The cities that are now part of the TUDA include many to most of the large and troubled urban school districts in the country. Among the cities included are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, Washington DC, Atlanta, Memphis and Houston.

It turns out that if you dig deep enough through the NAEP website, you can find data for what percentage of the black students scored at or above the “proficient” level in each of these districts and for each of math and reading. So let’s collect some of those data. Remember that overall approximately 50% of the test takers score at or above the “proficient” level. The following data are for eighth grade students designated by NAEP itself as “black,” in the most recent (2019) administration of the test

• New York City: 14% proficient in math (compared to 46% for whites); 14% proficient in reading (again compared to 46% for whites).  
• Los Angeles: 8% proficient in math (compared to 37% for whites); 9% proficient in reading (compared to 41% for whites). 
• Chicago: 15% proficient in math (compared to 56% for whites); 16% proficient in reading (compared to 55% for whites). 
• Detroit: 4% proficient in math (no figure given for whites, presumably because there aren’t enough whites in the school system to get a meaningful result); 5% proficient in reading (again, no figure given for whites) 
• Cleveland: 4% proficient in math (compared to 25% for whites); 10% proficient in reading (compared to 23% for whites). 
• Baltimore: 6% proficient in math (compared to 32% for whites); 10% proficient in reading (compared to 48% for whites).

You get the picture. Note that these are not the results of IQ or “intelligence” tests, but rather are tests of actual learning or achievement. Really, the scores are as much a measure of the success (or failure) of the schools in teaching the kids as they are a measure of the kids themselves.

These are the young people who supposedly will be ready to go to college in 2023, and to come out into starter tech jobs and corporate training programs and law schools in 2027. How many of the 85-96% of them who scored below “proficient” in reading and math in 8th grade are really going turn it around sufficiently to be able to move into these high-end jobs by their early 20s?

The simple truth is that without an education system that produces young black people at an equivalent educational level to young people of other ethnicities, it is never going to be possible for corporate America to get to universal 13% representation of blacks among executives, tech workers, lawyers, doctors, and so forth. As I said in Friday’s post, I would have some sympathy for them if they just had some humility and stopped accusing the rest of us of being racists and white supremacists. For the so-called “educators” in these big-city schools, who run failure factories year after year with no accountability, while fighting any and all potential competition, I have no sympathy at all.