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As you might have heard Robert E. Lee’s statue in Charlottesville Virginia was taken down to the cheers of liberals delighted to stand up and fight against the evils of slavery from 1865 and against the long dead men who fought for the confederacy who pose no threat to them while of course excusing and/or defending and/or ignoring slavery in China and Africa because such opposition might carry political or financial risk to themselves.

But while the left cheers this I found a little throw away line in a piece at the Clairmont review of books that I found most interesting it comes at the end of this paragraph:

Lee would be pardoned under a general amnesty at Christmas 1868, by which time Grant was president-elect. And yet Lee’s full civil liberties had not been restored when he died in 1870. In October 1865 he had signed an oath of allegiance to the United States, upon Grant’s reassurance and urging, but it disappeared. The vindictive Johnson had apparently pocketed it, and it was discovered only in the 1970s. In 1975, Gerald Ford signed legislation posthumously restoring all Lee’s citizenship rights. The margin of the vote tells us something about where Lee’s reputation stood even in that heavily “countercultural” age: it passed the Senate unanimously and the House by a vote of 407 to ten.

emphasis mine

I take note of this because there are two members of the current Government who were part of the Senate which delivered that unanimous vote to restore Lee’s rights in 1975

The first is the current Senior Senator from the very blue state of Vermont Patrick Leahy

The 2nd is the Current President of the United States Joe Biden

knowing this I put out a tweet Sunday on the subject:

A question for those on the left cheering the #RobertELee statue coming down in VA. As Lee is apparently beyond the pale Should any pol who voted him honors be required to resign from office immediately or be impeached for conduct not becoming a Federal office holder?

— Peter Ingemi (@DaTechGuyblog) July 11, 2021

I suspect like METOO & blackface the rules against don’t apply when Democrats are involved.

Malone: [stopping at a post office] Well, here we are.

Ness: What are we doing here?

Malone: Liquor raid.

Ness: [looking at the police station across the street that they just came from] Here?

Malone: Mr. Ness, everybody knows where the booze is. The problem isn’t finding it, the problem is who wants to cross Capone.

The Untouchables 1987

At NEO site she has a post with a question that is a topic of conversation among people I know:

What might the now-ongoing audits show?

It’s the wrong question just like it’s the post has the wrong title

What if the 2020 election audits end up revealing that Trump was actually the winner?

The actual question is:

What do we do when the audits prove that Trump was actually the winner of the election.

We need to stop playing this game. If the left thought for one moment that this election was clean and was won fairly they would have been all over themselves to put out audits, the media would be all over themselves to cover them, on Facebook and twitter and Instagram all of the tech platformed would be pushing for this data to be out there and praising the transparency and fairness of these Democrat stongholds. They would revel in their chance to proclaim to the entire country indeed to all the world that not only was the election clean but those who are saying otherwise are liars, fraudsters, grifters.

Instead they have fought tooth and nail to prevent these audits while at the same time saying there is no proof that there was anything untoward. It’s like the cigarette lobby insisting that there was no proof that smoking was dangerous in the 80’s.

The real danger to the left and the establishment isn’t that the audits will show that Trump was the winner. They know this is the case. The danger is that they will establish the methods that the left has been using for years to steal elections on the city state and local level, methods that members of the establishment right were quite willing to allow to happen as long as it didn’t threaten them.

You see once this is all out in the open and people can no longer deny or pretend they don’t know about then they have an excuse for inaction, as illustrated by this exchange between Sir Humphrey & Minister Jim Hacker when he found out about arms going to terrorists.

Sir Humphrey Appleby: So minister may we drop this matter of the arms sales?

Minister Jim Hacker: No we may not. I’m going to tell the Prime Minister personally, make an appointment Bernard. This is the sort of thing the prime minister wants to know about.

Sir Humphrey Appleby: I assure you minister this is the type of thing the Prime Minister desperately doesn’t want to know about

and his explanation to Hacker’s permanent private secretary.

Bernard: So what do we believe in?

Sir Humphrey: At this moment Bernard We believe in stopping the minister from speaking to the Prime Minister.

Bernard: But why?

Sir Humphrey: Because once the Prime Minister knows there will have to be an inquiry, like Watergate. The investigation of a trivial break-in lead to one ghastly revelation after another and finally to the downfall of a president. The golden rule is don’t lift lids off cans of worms.

Yes Minister The Whiskey Priest 1982

Once these things are established then the question will become:

What are you going to do about it?

And that’s when the shit hits the fan for a lot of career pols and civil servants whose job is to supposedly prevent this type of fraud:

How many state and local officials owe their positions to fixed elections or to appointments made after same. How many local contracts, local patronage jobs, local, state or even federal contracts worth millions are directed as a result of these things. How many useless relatives, friends, hangers on and incompetents are making a good living from their ability to feed at the public trough whose meals might be disrupted by these things being revealed? And if they are happening in WI, and PA, and GA and AZ the question becomes are they happening elsewhere? How blue are the deep blue states? Do people actually buy all this crap that been shoveled out from them or are they just silent or resigned to what’s going on and in fear of being called names?

This is the real question and it’s bigger when you consider this story about the RNC throwing Trump under the bus while pretending otherwise.

It’s like dealing with an army of Sir Humphrey’s. It’s not about policies , it’s not about what’s best, it’s what can we raise the most money on to feather our nests.

And so the question stands? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

Ten days ago or so, Nike CEO John Donahoe stated on an earnings call with investors that his fabled shoe company, started in Oregon by American Phil Knight, was “of China and for China.” Nike currently has 7,000 branded stores in China, and is, Donahoe boasts, the “largest sports brand” in the world’s most populated state, now a cruel dictatorship run by the Chinese Communist Party.

China is currently committing genocide against the Uyghur people of East Turkestan. It’s also crushing human rights and democracy in the former jewel of the British Empire, Hong Kong. And, still not finished crushing dissent and torturing its citizens, the Communist police in Tibet like to beat Tibetan monks silly.

This is who Nike and Mr. Donahoe are “of and for.”

And apparently, so are those athletes who take Nike’s money for endorsing their products: Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Lebron James, among many others. Has a single sports “journalist” asked any of these multimillionaires whether they are “of and for China?”

Of course not. The story has already been washed away from the sand under the unrelenting media tides. The media would rather gush over the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party.

In all likelihood, Nike will not suffer one noticeable whit from the contemptible musings of its CEO. It will continue to sell billions of yuan to the massive Chinese populace and lobby the U.S. Congress against banning slave labor.

Yes, Nike actually lobbied Congress to water down a bill banning slave labor. No one cares. Why should Nike? They know how this goes. So long as you give people the chance to buy something they want, they’ll forgive anything.

There’s no better example of this than Porsche, the legendary auto manufacturer. Porsche was founded in Stuttgart, Germany in 1931, shortly before Hitler and the Nazis took control of the nation. If any company was of and for Nazi Germany, it was Porsche. Ferdinand Porsche himself, the founder, was a Nazi and member of the Schutzstaffel, or SS. Along with designing the Volkswagen Beetle, at Hitler’s personal urging, Porsche also built the tanks that killed British and American solders, among others.

Did Porsche suffer any for its huge role in supporting Nazism and fascism? If they did, it’s long been forgotten.

Nike knows how this will go. Hell, the Left is already fighting to protect China from any consequences for its reprehensible human rights violations.

I wonder if they were wearing Nikes at the time.