The Progressive-Democratic Party Convention

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The main themes of Party’s convention were these:

President Donald Trump is a bad man.

We’re a diverse party, dammit!

We need votes.

Trump is bad.

The economy is bad.

Coronavirus is Trump’s fault.

Because Trump is bad.

We need votes.

America is racist.

Kamala Harris has a cool family (except for her son, who didn’t appear in the family paeons).

Joe Biden is a cool father.

We need votes.

America is failing on the world stage.

Did we mention Trump is bad? And we need votes?

Not a single word on Progressive-Democrat policies—not even a mention of Party’s platform. Just glittering, empty generalities about how Party intends to circumscribe individual liberties and rights: seizing our firearms and dictating to us what weapons we will be permitted to keep and Bear and our purpose in the keeping and bearing; open borders and free welfare for illegal aliens while thus diluting the rights and gains of native Americans and immigrants who came legally; their Green New Deal, which severely limits Americans’ access to reliable energy and transportation fuels, as California is demonstrating with its green energy-dependent rolling blackouts; and child care as infrastructure for families while their Wuhan Virus-related lockdowns prevents families from going back to work at all. Not a word, carefully not a word, on how they intend to implement any of these glitters.

Not a single syllable about the violence wracking all those Progressive-Democrat-run cities, cities like Portland, Seattle, New York City, Baltimore, Chicago.

But it’ll be a disaster if Trump is elected and we’re not. Because we’re so cool.

I Got a Text Message

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It was my first political text message, and it was from Powered by People, a Progressive-Democrat supporting organization. From their Web site, this:

Powered by People will not only be working in competitive State House districts, we will be expanding our organizing to every single one of the 254 counties of Texas, calling and texting every single Democrat to make sure that we help lead the largest voter turnout program in the history of the state.

Here’s the text; the recipient’s name is withheld to protect the person’s privacy:

Hi ****, this is Sharon, a volunteer w/Powered by People. As a Texan, will you vote for Joe Biden or Donald Trump this November?

My response:

This isn’t ****.
How typical of the Progressive-Democratic Party to do such sloppy work.
To answer your question, though, as a proud Texan, I’ll be voting for the overall good of our nation; I’ll be voting for Donald Trump.

This mistake also illustrates the potential for massive error represented by universal mail-in voting: misaddressed and so undelivered and mis-handled ballots, just lying around waiting for “others” to fraudulently fill in and submit.

Morality

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Its lack among Progressive-Democrats was on full display in a recent Harris Faulkner interview of Jose Aristimuno, ex-Party Deputy National Press Secretary and current President and Founder of NOW Strategies LLC, a leftist PR and communications company.

He was asked why no one on the first day of the Progressive-Democratic Party convention condemned the violence currently rampant in Progressive-Democrat-run cities.

Aristimuno’s excuse: “Those speeches were taped earlier.”

That’s a dishonest copout. The violence predates those tapings by months. It’s also an easy thing to update those recordings with a simple statement of condemnation.

Not one of the Party’s speakers chose to do any of that.

Progressive-Democrats are shying away from even commenting on the violence in their cities.

Think about what that says about their concept of morality.

Agitators Agitate

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And nominally peaceful protesters condone.

Peaceful demonstrations in downtown Chicago ended in a violent clash between police and protesters Saturday, leaving 17 officers injured and two dozen people arrested.
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“Multiple agitators hijacked this peaceful protest,” Mr [Chicago Police Superintendent David] Brown said late Saturday. “This group deployed large black umbrellas, changed their appearance and began pushing and eventually assaulting officers.”

It’s not strictly true that agitators hijacked the protest.

If those “peaceful” protesters had truly wanted to stay peaceful, they would have dealt with the agitators in their midst before the latter could convert the protest to violence.

Certainly, that would be hard to do, but hard means possible.

At best, the “peaceful” protestors are shirking their personal responsibility and putting their obligations off on others.

Panic Over Kern County, California

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Kern County, California, is in serious Wuhan Virus trouble. Or so think some journalists and the State of California.

Residents of the agriculture-rich Central Valley are falling victim to Covid-19 at the highest rates in California….

And

Kern County, which lies in the Central Valley’s southernmost part, had the highest per capita rate of new Covid-19 infections in California between July 31 and Aug. 13, averaging 56.2 new cases per 100,000 people….

Now for some context, using Alejandro Lazo’s—he’s the author of the piece at the link—own numbers.

In total, 25,888 people there have been infected and 204 have died, according to the county health department. Statewide, California recorded 601,075 cases as of Friday and 10,996 deaths.

The mortality rate in Kern, given an infection, is 0.8%

Statewide, the mortality rate is 1.8%.

Both rates are quite low (so why are Newsom and the NLMSM in such a blind panic?), but Kern looks quite a bit safer than the State at large, contrary to the tone of the article.

Go figure.