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Why does this story not surprise me?

A statue of the Virgin Mary was set ablaze outside a Boston church Saturday night, said police who are investigating the arson incident.

Officers at 10 p.m. responded to a call for a fire in the area of 284 Bowdoin St. in Dorchester.

On arrival at St.Peter’s Parish, officers saw that a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary had been set on fire.

I wasn’t aware of Mary leading any Confederate brigades during the civil war?

The Rev. John Currie, pastor at St. Peter’s Parish, said a prayer next to the Virgin Mary statue Sunday afternoon.

“This is obviously someone who’s disturbed, someone who has a troubled soul,” Currie said of the unknown suspect.

I agree, my money is on a member of Biden’s base particularly given what been going on lately although to be fair you never do know about these things.

I suspect this type of thing isn’t going to play well with Hispanic voters, particularly Mexicans who revere Our Lady of Guadalupe.

On the plus side for the vandals, Our Lady is almost certainly already praying for them. And for this one too

In 1862 during the little tif in the nation known as the Civil War General George McClellan devised what was in fact a pretty good plan to take the Rebel capital at Richmond. 130,000+ soldiers were moved by the US navy to the James Peninsula to hit Richmond from the east rather than southward from Washington and began their march toward Yorktown.

The Confederates was at Yorktown was one tenth their size commanded by John Bankhead Magruder. With the primary Confederate force under Joseph Johnston out of position he knew that if McClellan pushed forward he could brush aside his tiny force and reach Richmond before help could arrive by land.

So as McClellan reached the outskirts of Yorktown Magruder a fan of theatrical performances, arranged for his men to be constantly spotted in as many different places on the defensive line as possible each day while setting up fake cannon and defenses to convince McClellan that instead of the tiny but loud force that before him , there stood a mighty host.

It worked. McClellan begged for more troops delaying his movements bringing up siege guns and 41 ten ton mortars that had to be moved into place by animal and manpower which took plenty of time allowing Johnston’s force which had been blocking the route from Washington DC to move south.

By the time McClellan was ready to begin the bombardment Magruder, took his show on the road and pulled out leaving McClellan an empty town. He had delayed him a full month while suffering fewer causalities against a 130,000 man army than the city of Chicago loses to murder over six months these days.

It’s 160 years later and the Democrats are playing the same game, this time using Twitter, Google and the MSM.

And that brings us to Google, Twitter and the Democrats in 2020.

The reality is that to win in Election 2020 the Democrats have to take state they lost in 2016. In order to do this they have to increase their potential vote while decreasing President Trump base, while at the same time keeping him from going on offense in states where he came close like Virginia, Minnesota and New Hampshire.

So what we’ve seen has been a giant Psi-ops operation. The left was already well established in Academia, Hollywood , the media and in big tech. So they’ve used these advantages to downplay President Trump’s success and either silence or divert arguments in his favor.

And with foreign governments like China with a vested interest in defeating Trump (and able to use their leverage with large tech and multinational corporations anxious for their market) on board they have done all they can to silence voices in support of the president both online and in person while using a campaign of intimidation & disinformation to make their own voices appear to be more widespread rather than concentrated in states like California and New York where they already hold majorities.

With Chinese dollars on the line and consultant jobs that are not going to former deep state players at stake there have been plenty of people who the media/democrat/left are elevating as “voices of the right” who argue for capitulation. Those who they can’t buy they attempt to spook.

These are the McClellans that they hope to face.

Unfortunately for the Democrat left coming the economy which was doing well before Corona is roaring back, the stock market is surging again and unemployment numbers are heading back in the right direction. Unless they can get those states that Trump won to shut down and the virus back on the march these trends will sink them (why do you think they’ve been so anxious to promote large gatherings of BLM supporters, you didn’t think they actually wanted the Corona virus numbers down did you?)

Most unfortunate of all for the left President Trump is not a McClellan, he’s a Grant and he fights. and there are a lot of people who are willing to fight on his side.

The question is this. Where you do stand are you a McClellan as the left’s Magruders hope or are you a Grant?

That will determine the election.

I see the self made disaster zone in Minneapolis is making news again:

The Star Tribune reports on the third sexual assault in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood in as many weeks, although the report neglects to mention its no-police pledge it took after the killing of George Floyd. That led to an encampment of homeless people that now number in the hundreds forming in the park itself, which the neighborhood also seems determined to endure:

I don’t have a problem with this. Liberalism is the religion for these people and if their religion requires them to put themselves in danger of from these predators well who am I to interfere with their 1st amendment right to practice it?

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In some sections of DC it’s amazing how well enforcing the law works

White allies spring to his defense to prevent the arrest. Then they try to argue, “What he being detained for” as if they didn’t just see him hit the guy and then falsely arguing the Trump supporter punched him first. That takes some gall but an important example of how they often falsely represent the facts of what happens in incidents.

More people start assembling and trying to stop the police from taking the guy away. It’s a basic principle in such situations to try anything to “de-arrest” the person, to grab him back and free him from the cops. But one guy takes it just a little bit too far…The only thing that’s more problematic than punching someone in front of the cops is punching one of the cops.

End result two arrests instead of one

At this point they’ve basically neutralized them in D.C., they let them walk aimlessly across the city all night and go home, they can’t destroy what they want or camp because everything is fenced off.

Now if they could just get this kind of policing in the areas that need it, but the mayor will never allow it.

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The irony of two white girls using a Chinese app to post a video of themselves singing “ f–k Trump and f–k the USA.” when if they did such a thing in China they would vanish (unexpectedly of course) is lost on these two fools but if I had to bet money I’d say this victory girls profile is spot on:

Dollars to donuts she grew up in a nice middle-class family, never worried about the next meal or having to get a job as a teen to feed herself or family. She’s the product of politically squishy parent(s) who encouraged her to “find herself”, gave her an unconditional allowance, praised her regardless of performance and worried more about her grades than her character. She’s a college grad with a degree either in Angry Studies or Liberal Arts. Her gayness is as much a political posture as her anti-Americanism (the tip-off is her use of the word “queer”).

It will be fun when this comes up in google searches by potential employers. I hope they have the skills to produce something on their own.

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I think the most interesting paragraph of Victor Davis Hansen’s latest piece is this:

Could Ken Burns now still make The Civil War, 30 years after its original release, with a folksy Shelby Foote contextualizing the Confederate defeat as thousands of brave men dying for a tragic cause beneath them? Would a liberal Southerner like the late Jody Powell still dare to voice the words of Stonewall Jackson or Horton Foote or Jefferson Davis? In our more enlightened revolutionary times, were all these players useful idiots in the cause of racism?

The answer of course is No.

Want to be a real revolutionary, Read American History told by Contemporaries. Actual history as spoken & written by people of the time rather than spun by Zinn & co. Volumes one two three & four are online at least for now. Volume five you’ll have to find and buy somewhere.

To read this history unapproved by the left is a revolutionary act these days

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Don Surber notes a dire warning for both the Democrats and the Nevertrump “conservatives” who are allying with them

“As the leadership of Black Lives Matter is professedly Marxist and rejects the proposition that all lives matter, it is an overtly and violently anti-white, racist institution of the far Left. Antifa are violent, racist fellow-travelers. In failing to condemn these groups unequivocally, the Democratic Party will soon discover that it has been mortally infected by cohabitation with them.”…Finally, Black issued a strong warning to neo-conservatives, writing, “Former conservatives and pillars of the pre-Trump Republican Party are now facing the point of no return. If they confirm their support for the almost leaderless Democratic Party now closely allied with pestilence and racist mayhem, they will never have any political influence in any party again. The time to choose between irreconcilable opposites is almost at hand.”

The Democrat left is in my opinion reacting out of fear because they understand that these violent Marxists will come for them & their careers 1st (easier unarmed targets). The Never Trump right are simply consultants chasing the $’s that they are no longer getting via Trump and will play the useful idiot as long as there is a paycheck in it.

This is why I’m not worried about Election 2020. You don’t have to like Trump to see what the choice for America is and I think Americans in the privacy of the voting booth will answer loudly.