Author: Jeff Portnoy

The reason for the protests and riots that are happening right now, is for reasons that are way more similar to why the Black Lives Matter protests and riots happened than either side is willing to admit.

At the core of these riots, at the core of why they voted for Trump in the first place, is frustration and fear over what they see around them: lost jobs, low wages, the cost of living skyrocketing out of control.

Simply put: people who are happy and comfortable don’t riot. The problem is that they’re misplacing their anger and rage.

This isn’t about left vs. right, Republican vs. Democrat, White vs. Black.

It’s about the people vs. a relative handful of incredibly powerful politicians and cronies who rob us every day.

They rob us of our money, but they also rob us of our opportunities, of our livelihoods, of our future. As we’ve seen many times, sometimes they rob us of our lives.

Their actions fill us with rage, and they redirect our rage towards each other.

Remember in the 2000s when Occupy (anti big business) & the Tea Party (anti big govt) were fighting each other while big govt handed trillions of dollars to big business, created regulations to turn them into monopolies, and laughed at the rest of us?

That’s happening right now.

We just got yet another “stimulus” bill where we got $600, crony corporations & big government agencies got trillions, & we got stuck with the bill for it, with interest.

This was passed in a broad bipartisan agreement. Pelosi, Harris, McConnell and Trump all had a part in it.

They want us to riot so they can use it as an excuse to pass even more authoritarian “tough on crime” measures. Can you imagine what Biden and Congress are going to do after this fiasco?

The thing is, it doesn’t have to be this way. It never did.

We don’t have to live with a system that wasn’t built for us, but relies on us to keep going.

We don’t have to be struggling to make ends meet.

We don’t have to beg for crumbs from the bread that was stolen from us.

There is only one way to fix this:

Recognize that this is all a scam, that Rs & Ds are in on it together.

Never vote for them again.

Replace them with people who will dismantle their thieving, murderous system.

Don’t hate your neighbor, work with them to fix this for good.

– Spike Cohen

https://youtu.be/dKppODKE-LU

The study also included the following findings about Nashville:

• Home sales are up 16.3% over last year.
• Home prices are up 8.4% over last year.
• Months supply of inventory is down 35% over last year.

https://fox17.com/news/local/nashville-now-ranks-second-in-the-country-for-fastest-selling-homes-housing-report-says

Coleman Hughes offers an optimistic alternate vision

America has a long tradition of liberal anti-racism that reaches back to Martin Luther King, A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Frederick Douglass, and beyond. It is an anti-racism grounded in the idea that there is a single human race to which we all belong—and that all the ways of dividing us up, though they may be important to understand our present reality, should not be given moral weight.

That is the principle that ultimately conquered slavery and Jim Crow—and it is the principle that ought to be revived today.

Major progress is already made: Back in the early 1970s, the NYPD killed 91 people in a single year. In 2018, they killed five. Since 2001, the national incarceration rate for black men ages 18-29 has been cut by more than half.

Most people don’t know this. As a result, they imagine that the system must be overturned in order for progress to occur. But though there are, of course, still a lot of injustices in today’s America, they are wrong.

The current system, warts and all, has enabled huge progress for black people in recent decades. Overturning the liberal principles on which our institutions are based would not hasten progress towards racial equality; it would threaten the very stability that is required for incremental progress to occur.

It is time to restore Martin Luther King’s dream for American race relations—a dream that, even as it refuses to flinch from the injustices we still need to overcome, defiantly holds onto the idea that what we have in common is ultimately more important than what divides us.

We must defend that principle even when it is unpopular, even when it marks you as “tone-deaf,” and even when it elicits eyerolls from those who imagine they have found more worthy principles. Our ability to remedy racial injustice depends on it.

https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-better-anti-racism

Utah leaders of the Proud Boys have apparently joined up with an unlikely ally after comments made by President Trump during Tuesday night’s presidential debate.

Both agreed that the mainstream media has perpetuated false narratives about the Proud Boys and BLM that have caused division between the two groups.

https://www.bet.com/news/national/2020/10/01/black-lives-matter-proud-boys-utah-trump.html

The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) announced on Monday afternoon that it is “looking into” explosive “allegations of voter fraud” following a video that was released yesterday by Project Veritas that involves a campaign worker for Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN).

ALLEGATIONS OF VOTER FRAUD BEING EVALUATED. ✅ The MPD is aware of the allegations of vote harvesting. We are in the process of looking into the validity of those statements. No further information is available at this time on this.

— Minneapolis Police (@MinneapolisPD) September 28, 2020

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-minneapolis-police-looking-into-explosive-voter-fraud-allegations-involving-ilhan-omar

Donald Trump chimed in…

This is totally illegal. Hope that the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota has this, and other of her many misdeeds, under serious review??? If not, why not??? We will win Minnesota because of her, and law enforcement. Saved Minneapolis & Iron O Range! https://t.co/yete31P680

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 28, 2020

October 12, 1915, Former President Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech before the Knights of Columbus. He spoke of what it takes to created a united America. Below is the speech.

https://projecttahoe.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Grade-8CR-Hyphenated-Americanism.doc

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen.

Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country.

The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic.

The foreign-born population of this country must be an Americanized population – no other kind can fight the battles of America either in war or peace. It must talk the language of its native-born fellow-citizens, it must possess American citizenship and American ideals. It must stand firm by its oath of allegiance in word and deed and must show that in very fact it has renounced allegiance to every prince, potentate, or foreign government. It must be maintained on an American standard of living so as to prevent labor disturbances in important plants and at critical times.

None of these objects can be secured as long as we have immigrant colonies, ghettos, and immigrant sections, and above all they cannot be assured so long as we consider the immigrant only as an industrial asset. The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is to not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them.

We cannot afford to continue to use hundreds of thousands of immigrants merely as industrial assets while they remain social outcasts and menaces any more than fifty years ago we could afford to keep the black man merely as an industrial asset and not as a human being. We cannot afford to build a big industrial plant and herd men and women about it without care for their welfare.

We cannot afford to permit squalid overcrowding or the kind of living system which makes impossible the decencies and necessities of life….We cannot afford to run the risk of having in time of war men working on our railways or working in our munitions plants who would in the name of duty to their own foreign countries bring destruction to us.

… All of us, no matter from what land our parents came, no matter in what way we may severally worship our Creator, must stand shoulder to shoulder in a united America for the elimination of race and religious prejudice. We must stand for a reign of equal justice to both big and small. We must insist on the maintenance of the American standard of living.

DeSantis held a press conference on Friday at which he stated, “It’s pretty clear that we use our resources best when we focus them on the people who are most vulnerable to COVID-19. I think it’s readily apparent that that’s the elderly population.”

4) Daily hospital admissions for COVID have declined by 81% since the July peak.

5) The percentage of positive diagnostic test results for new cases was reported at 4.32%.

6) 24% of hospital beds are empty; so are 23% of ICU beds.

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) September 25, 2020

https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-on-opening-phase-3-you-cant-just-say-no-after-six-months-and-just-have-people-twisting-in-the-wind

On September 22, 2020 President Donald Trump issued an executive order which bans Federal Contractors who implement controversial CRT Training.

…with our Country, the United States Military, Government Contractors, and Grantees. Americans should be taught to take PRIDE in our Great Country, and if you don’t, there’s nothing in it for you!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2020

Excerpt:

“Executive departments and agencies (agencies), our Uniformed Services, Federal contractors, and Federal grant recipients should, of course, continue to foster environments devoid of hostility grounded in race, sex, and other federally protected characteristics. Training employees to create an inclusive workplace is appropriate and beneficial. The Federal Government is, and must always be, committed to the fair and equal treatment of all individuals before the law.

“Today, however, many people are pushing a different vision of America that is grounded in hierarchies based on collective social and political identities rather than in the inherent and equal dignity of every person as an individual. This ideology is rooted in the pernicious and false belief that America is an irredeemably racist and sexist country; that some people, simply on account of their race or sex, are oppressors; and that racial and sexual identities are more important than our common status as human beings and Americans.

“This destructive ideology is grounded in misrepresentations of our country’s history and its role in the world. Although presented as new and revolutionary, they resurrect the discredited notions of the nineteenth century’s apologists for slavery who, like President Lincoln’s rival Stephen A. Douglas, maintained that our government “was made on the white basis” “by white men, for the benefit of white men.” Our Founding documents rejected these racialized views of America, which were soundly defeated on the blood-stained battlefields of the Civil War. Yet they are now being repackaged and sold as cutting-edge insights. They are designed to divide us and to prevent us from uniting as one people in pursuit of one common destiny for our great country.

“All of this is contrary to the fundamental premises underpinning our Republic: that all individuals are created equal and should be allowed an equal opportunity under the law to pursue happiness and prosper based on individual merit.

“Therefore, it shall be the policy of the United States not to promote race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating in the Federal workforce or in the Uniformed Services, and not to allow grant funds to be used for these purposes. In addition, Federal contractors will not be permitted to inculcate such views in their employees.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-race-sex-stereotyping/

The conservative media company started by Ben Shapiro, Jeremy Boreing and Caleb Robinson, plans to move its headquarters from California to Tennessee.

According to Boreing, “L.A. benefits from the fact that, while it leans left, it draws individualists out to find their fame and seek their fortunes. They’re an ornery bunch. But they aren’t so ornery that this out of control government can’t break them.”

He said that they considered moving to Texas, but chose Nashville because it “offers the creative talent we need to keep growing the business.”

https://deadline.com/2020/09/the-daily-wire-ben-shapiro-jeremy-boeing-1234577589/

The Trump administration has instructed federal agencies to end racial sensitivity trainings that address topics like white privilege and critical race theory, calling them “divisive, anti-American propaganda.” 

In a letter to federal agencies Friday, the director of the Office of Management and Budget said the president recently became aware of the racial sensitivity programs, which encourage frank conversations about race in the workplace and discuss potential actions to combat systemic racism.

The memo, issued by OMB Director Russell Vought, reads in part: 

“All agencies are directed to begin to identify all contracts or other agency spending related to any training on ‘critical race theory,’ ‘white privilege,’ or any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either (1) that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil.”

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/05/910053496/trump-tells-agencies-to-end-trainings-on-white-privilege-and-critical-race-theor

https://youtu.be/1o3S47jvLk4

After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused her of orchestrating a “setup,” a GoFundMe page supporting San Francisco salon owner Erica Kious quickly amassed more than $147,000 in 24 hours and continues to climb.

The page, which was set up by Erica’s family friend, Amy Tarkanian, goes on to conclude that all donations will be in the service of Erica and her business by helping to pay off any debts or relocation expenses. As of this writing, it has accumulated $147,190.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/salon-owners-gofundme-raises-147k-after-pelosi-controversy