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During the presidential debate on Tuesday, moderator Chris Wallace asked President Trump to “condemn white supremacy.” Trump wasn’t precise enough in his answer for the Democrats and media, and so story after story went on about Trump’s supposed refusal to “condemn white supremacy.”

Wallace’s question exemplifies the Left’s trick of changing the meaning of language to suit their preferred outcomes and ideology.

If you look at a typical dictionary definition of the phrase, “white supremacy, you get:

“The belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society, typically to the exclusion or detriment of other racial and ethnic groups, in particular black or Jewish people.”

I suspect if you ask the average American, this is their concept of “white suprem

Poor fools.

For the Left, such a definition is just the beginning. Sure, you include such a concept, but then you expand and broaden the definition until it lets you justify whatever action you wish.

So, the Anti-Defamation League adds that white supremacy includes the “belief that white people have their own ‘culture’ that is superior to other cultures.”

Do white people not have their own culture?  To the extent any subgroup of people with something in common have a culture, it seems odd to exclude white people. There is no doubt Europe, at least, was predominantly made up of white people until rather recently. Were white societies so inclusive, they could not be called “white?” Or are they so inclusive now, they aren’t “white?”

But the real twists come with what the academic Left considers “white supremacy.”

The academic Left is beholden to Critical Race Theory, which, as UCLA law professor Cheryl Harris explained in the Nation, focuses “on the way that race is baked into the current political, economic, and social system so that racial subordination is reproduced through normal operations.” So, according to Critical Race Theory, the normal operations of society – presumably here, American society – is racist, because it results in racial subordination. There is no human agency here, simply the “system.”

University of Tennessee College of Law Professor Emeritus Frances Ansley, as quoted by Critical Race Theorist David Gillborn, states that white supremacy is, “a political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources, conscious and unconscious ideas of white superiority and entitlement are widespread, and relations of white dominance and non-white subordination are daily reenacted across a broad array of institutions and social settings.”

So now, white supremacy can mean the KKK stringing up “strange fruit” on “Southern trees,” but it also can mean, you know, the entire American society. All the same thing.

And then, after twisting the meaning of the term, the Left then goes ahead and changes the dictionary definition, just to cover its tracks.

So what exactly do you mean, Mr. Wallace? Are you asking Trump to condemn all of American society?

If so, I can understand Trump’s seeming hesitance to do so.

Just before the debate I noted that when Matt Drudge puts up his: Who won tonight’s Debate post as he always does it will be the first time in a while that many conservatives visit his site.

Did I say “always”? Don Surber corrects me:

I did not have to watch the debate to know who won. The media did it for me. I did not go by what they said. I went by what they did.

First up was Matt Drudge. He did not run one of his who-won-the-debate polls. That is telling. Oh sure, there are plenty of instant polls that say President Donald Trump won, but when it comes to getting a debate right, the Drudge Report is far more accurate than the usual Trump-lost polls.

The surest sign that Donald Trump won the debate is the rush to change the rules. And the surest sign that whoever now owns the Drudge report is more interested in an agenda than clicks is when running a click based business turning down millions of easy clicks

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It looks like a bigger winner than Donald Trump in the Debate might be Kyle Rittenhouse:

On behalf of Kyle Rittenhouse, I shall sue @JoeBiden & Biden/Harris Campaign for libel.

I am partisan in 20/20 supporting @realDonaldTrump.

I am non-partisan trial lawyer who aggressively pursues truth to achieve justice.

Put in your hearing aid, Joe. You will hear footsteps.

— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) September 30, 2020

I particularly like this follow up tweet:

When I take @JoeBiden deposition on cross-examination, no wire or computer contact lenses will save him.

I will rip Joe into shreds. Ask witnesses who have had the misfortune of sitting across the table from me under oath.

You don’t mess with my children, my pup, or my clients.

— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) September 30, 2020

Given that as Joe Biden said he IS the democrat party I wonder if they will be a party to this suit.

What is it about the left that makes them determined to enrich conservative teenagers?

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Speaking of business and click apparently the Huffington Post isn’t producing anywhere near enough to make money.

“This thing loses so much money,” a digital media executive with knowledge of the financials said. “It’s such a mess, I wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole. I don’t think there’s any way you can make money.”

People briefed on the talks said Verizon, headed by CEO Hans Vestberg, appears to be seeking to offload HuffPost to a buyer willing to take a knife to the site’s high operating expenses — a potentially daunting process that would require going head-to-head with the site’s union and enacting “massive layoffs,” sources said. 

While HuffPost brings in between $45 million to $50 million a year in revenue, its annual expenses are between $60 million and $70 million, two sources said. And with advertising slammed by the pandemic, it will likely bring in $40 million this year, the sources said. 

I don’t claim that DaTechGuyblog.com is better or more influential than the Huffington Post and frankly it isn’t what it used to be in terms of traffic (what is this “Instalanche” of which you speak?) but we’re apparently better at business because we don’t lose millions, in fact off the top of my head I can’t remember the last time I took a loss in the 12 years I’ve done it.

Anyways I want Arianna Huffington to give me stock advice. She sure proved she knows when to sell.

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One of the things about tolerating riots and rioters in order to help win an election is that there are consequences to your actions to wit:

Boeing to move all 787 Dreamliner production to South Carolina

Shift would end output of that jetliner in Seattle area as demand for planes plummets amid pandemic

Via Don Surber who points out

You can have CHAZ or jobs. You cannot have both.

This type of thing will continue until the voters in Washington in general and Seattle in particular decide to change it.

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Finally when I got home from work I found out that the President and 1st Lady have tested positive for Covid.

The president being older would be considered at risk but given his personal stamina and the fact that he has the best medical care in the world I’d say the odds are in his favor unless someone treating him decided to give him a micky of some sort.

It was not too many years ago that the very suggestion of such a thing would have been unthinkable but given what we’ve seen from the left in reactions to this news and frankly from some in the medical profession I’d not put it past them.