As this twitter user points out, the last time a president did that, they called it an "insurrection" and discussed the possibility of prosecuting him.

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Look at all the Social Justice they're doing!

Quick, megacorporations! Donate another billion to Black Lives Matter!

Its grifter founders need new houses in Beverly Hills!

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Sincere apologies to OregonMuse but the server really, really didn't like that post.  I'll get it sorted out later today so that images redirect entirely to an image server and don't overload this one.

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Good morning kids. Monday and the coming apart at the seams continues apace. With plenty of horrendous things to look at, why not start on somewhat of an upbeat note for a change of pace. As the psychos in the Oval Office via their overlords in Kalorama are moving at "warp speed" to give the equally psychotic dark age Armeggedon-ists in Tehran nukes, it seems the Israelis have something to say about that. 

According to the New York Times on Sunday: 

A power failure that appeared to have been caused by a deliberately planned explosion struck Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site on Sunday, in what Iranian officials called an act of sabotage that they suggested had been carried out by Israel. The blackout injected new uncertainty into diplomatic efforts that began last week to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal repudiated by the Trump administration.

Iran did not say precisely what had caused the blackout at the heavily fortified site, which has been a target of previous sabotage, and Israel publicly declined to confirm or deny any responsibility. But American and Israeli intelligence officials said there had been an Israeli role.

How bad is to be determined, but we can credibly assume the Israelis did it. Thank God we’ve got the Israelis. We can only hope what we can be pretty sure is the Israelis' work against the Iranian nuclear weapons program is successful. The United States will not oppose it for the foreseeable future...

...In a Facebook discussion with a very liberal friend of mine, when I asked about the Iranians developing nuclear weapons, he said "Who are we to say they can’t have them…they have as much right as any other nation.” I looked at his post and wondered how much he had to drink this past week. The problem is his view reflects many on the left. Part is their innate anti-Semitism. And part is the naïve belief that the West in general, and the United States in particular, have no standing to criticize any other nation, see the usual canards (slavery, mistreatment of the Indians, etc.). 

Emphasis mine in that paragraph. The last one segues us into the downer portion of the program As I had stated, we have a government, and an illegitimate one at that, that is manifestly irresponsible and reckless, insofar as its worldview is so completely out of phase with reality that, coupled with its absolutist/fundamentalist Gott Mit Uns mandate that it will stop at nothing. Even if it means giving Islamic savages nuclear weapons, or grinding the American people into submission or death without a Farsi 10-kiloton airburst somewhere along the east coast.  

Yet, it's one thing to have a dozen or even hundreds in government, perhaps many thousands if you include the bureaucracy, imposing a totalitarian regime on the populace. The giant problem is that an alarming percentage of the populace are completely in line with the program, and worse, have an even more alarming percentage of the private sector in a Krupp/NSDAP style fascistic symbiosis to actually act as the regime's enforcers, without a Secret Policeman in sight. 

Roughly 100 of America’s top corporate leaders and CEOs gathered both in-person and virtually on Saturday to strategize ways to combat new election integrity laws like Georgia’s H.B. 531. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale University management professor who helped organize the meeting, framed it as a response to threats of reprisals after Georgia-based companies like Delta Air Lines, Coca-Cola, and Aflac Insurance condemned the Georgia bill. He called election integrity measures "anti-undemocratic.” 

"The gathering was an enthusiastic voluntary statement of defiance against threats of reprisals for exercising their patriotic voices,” Sonnenfeld told CBS News. The corporate leaders "recognize that they need to step up to the plate and are not fearful of these reprisals. They’re showing a disdain for these political attacks. Not only are they fortifying each other, but they see that this spreading disease of voter restrictions from Georgia to up to possibly 46 other states is based on a false premise and its’ anti-democratic...” 

...The CBS News report on the CEO gathering illustrates this leftist bias. CBS News cited the Brennan Center for Justice, an organization dedicated to the values of left-leaning Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, the "father of modern judicial activism.” While the group purports to be "nonpartisan,” it has received substantial funding from organizations associated with George Soros and other leftist groups. The Brennan Center frames the 361 bills to further election integrity, proposed in 47 states, as measures "that would restrict voting access.” At least 55 of the bills are moving through legislatures in 24 states. Twenty-nine have passed one chamber, and five bills have been signed into law. Sonnenfeld’s number of states considering these bills -- 47 -- seems to trace back to the Brennan Center.

To launch the CEO meeting, Sonnenfeld teamed up with Lynn Forester de Rothschild, the founding partner of Inclusive Capital Partners -- a left-leaning investment manager -- and Leadership Now, a group of Harvard University alumni and corporate leaders that claims to focus on sustaining democracy. 

"We invited 120 CEO’s with about 50 hours notice. We were praying for 25 and we got 90 CEO’s and another 30 invited guests including legal experts, technology experts and historians,” Sonnenfeld told CBS News. He said the CEOs united to combat the backlash that Delta and Coca-Cola faced.  

Terrific. Note my emphasis; it's they who consider themselves patriotic. So in the name of patriotism, I imagine they will fire anyone in their employ who is found to have voiced support for voter integrity laws. Hell, why stop at that? Fire anyone who is a member of the NRA, or has donated to pro-life groups, bought State of Israel Bonds, has refused to take the hot COVID injection, or has not raised the black power fist with sufficient gusto. And so on and so on and scooby dooby dooby.  

We shall soon discover whether this tenet of wokeism -- asymmetrical use of collective stereotyping -- is widely accepted by 330 million Americans. We will soon see one of three consequences from this unapologetic woke racial generalizing: 

1-The American people are so inured to their hateful origins and history, that they do not mind at all when whites are collectively demonized as enjoying positions they never earned and thus logically should not continue to enjoy. Or, 

2-Given that no one objects to stereotyping 230 million people, no one objects to anyone stereotyping others on the basis of race, in the manner that once fostered the civil rights movement. Or, 

3-We will all for survival, as Rwanda, the Balkans, and Iraq teach us, group together by first-cousin affinities and tribes. Recalling Hobbes’ bellum omnium contra omnes, we will freely stereotype, denigrate, and separate from other groups on the premises that our particular generalizations and deductions are the one and only true and accurate typecasting... 

...So this, too, will be another of wokeism’s greatest tests, when elite writers, professors, actors, lawyers, newsroom grandees, and CEO magnificoes learn that they, too, can be of the wrong color under the new tribal prejudice they fostered.  

Wokeism is creating a future group of politically incorrect Trotskyites on a proverbial rendezvous with a Mexican ice ax, given that by birth they will never be woke enough for the new Stalinism. 

Wind. Whirlwind. Some assembly required. Meh, in this case, it will be fully assembled.

And now a word from, or "to" our sponsors: Would you kindly consider hitting Ace's and my tip jars? It takes a lot to bring real news and informed opinion, and it won't get easier when they ship us off to the gulag. For those who have and continue to do so, your generosity is truly appreciated. 

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY 

• When they've got you by the wallet, your heart and mind will follow...  Major Corporations Plan To Oppose Election Integrity Measures
• Roger Kimball: "When the world no longer speaks meaningfully to us, we shout into the void and pretend the echoes come from on high."  The Fatuousness of Guilt as an Instrument of Policy 
• "Thanks to runaway debt under [Chinese] COVID-19, America is becoming a PIIGS nation."  The Imminent Peril of Fiscal Collapse 
• Victor Davis Hanson: "Wokeism is creating a future group of politically incorrect Trotskyites on a proverbial rendezvous with a Mexican ice pick, given that by birth they will never be woke enough for the new Stalinism."  Can the Great "Awokening" Succeed? 

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