I already have the t-shirt ordered.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/859468135/giant-meteor-election-2020-campaign?ref=shop_home_feat_3&pro=1&frs=1

Read all about it here.
https://babylonbee.com/news/approaching-asteroid-skyrockets-to-top-of-polls

PS – astrology often looks like word salad, but having an attitude of gratitude is always good advice.

TLDR, blather and yammer and a wall of word salad. Mind as big as a planet and a comment as long as a Star Wars introduction. Is the Death Star in there too?

Maybe Yammer is going for the self parody angle?

Yammer has been repossessed it appears.

Now I tell you, a message I am directed to give you by the Divine Counsel. Pay attention, mortals. You won’t get too many chances later.

September 2020 Spiritual Insights

Brace yourself for the last part of 2020 because so much is about to happen. Many events are building for a final release. We are nearing the end to the coronavirus pandemic as the month of September brings much-needed relief. By the end of September, both Jupiter and Saturn will turn direct and Rahu and Ketu will transit into Taurus and Scorpio. But at the same time, Mars will take center stage as it stations and turns retrograde on September 9.

Amid a pandemic, civil unrest, and a divisive U.S. election season, we now have an asteroid zooming toward us. And on the day before the presidential vote, no less. The celestial object known as 2018VP1 is predicted to come close to Earth on November 2. Comets and asteroids are historically known to be signs or symbols of things to come. I believe this is a powerful symbol of the extremes of change and transformation to come.
The political race is about to change and become a serious concern. No matter who you favor in the race, realize what is actually happening is a powerful uncovering of the corruption that has been operating deep within society throughout the years. As both political parties attack each other, we are getting to the truth. As I have mentioned before, nature is balancing the extremes of unbalance. The laws of the Universe and nature involve balance and cycles are part of balance.

Everything happens for a reason! Even the coronavirus is a part of the cycle that will balance all the imbalances. The political race in the U.S. will reveal corruption in the world as the parties and reporters unravel the truth for many aspects of humanity. Humanity is about to uncover even more of the corruption worldwide. More than ever, people want the truth!

The anger is about to come to a head soon and will bring extreme blow-ups worldwide. As Mars stations in Aries in the nakshatra Ashwini (ruled by Ketu), riots and conflicts will begin to intensify. The world is beginning to explode with emotion. Mars will be retrograde from September 9 – November 14.

This month, planets are strongly placed with Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn in their own signs, and Mercury exalted. As Rahu is in Taurus and Ketu is in Scorpio, these are the signs in which they are exalted. So, the planets will deliver strong and powerful effects. This is the month great strides in a cure for the coronavirus will come to fruition.

The ghandanta planets Mars and Ketu are causing great fires and floods. Planets are ghandanta when they are in the last degrees of a water sign and first degrees of a fire sign. These placements represent drowning and losing control. As Mars transits in late Pisces and early Aries, there will be the most extremes in weather and fires around the world. Ketu will also be ghandanta most of this month as it is in early Sagittarius and late Scorpio. The remainder of 2020 will see an extreme crisis in weather, fires, and violence.

In contemplation over all the extreme events playing out this month, I have asked over and over for the spiritual message to give and to keep us going for this month. To be honest, I questioned the message over and over again, but it kept coming again and again.

What is the lesson I kept getting for the month of September? At first, it just didn’t make sense to me but this is the message that kept coming in loud and clear: have gratitude. In receiving this message, I asked how can we have gratitude amidst a pandemic, growing violence, and out-of-control conditions with floods and fires? So, I had to go to the book I wrote in 2005, Awaken to the Power within You, in which I wrote an entire chapter on gratitude and I reread it to understand the message.

Here is the chapter on Gratitude:
Gratitude is a feeling. To come from a place of thanks, show your appreciation. When others are grateful toward you for what you have done, it makes you want to do more for them. This has the same effect on the Universe. When you are grateful for that which you receive from your life, you put a positive loving energy out toward all that is, and it will only create more. You want to give to those you feel are grateful, and not those who have no appreciation for what you have given them. Gratefulness makes life flow with ease, the way it is supposed to be.

If you focus on what you don’t have instead of what you do have, you will attract more of what you don’t have. You are, in essence, being ungrateful for what you do have if your focus is on what you don’t have.

When there is a terrible loss, the pressing issue of the loss will be your focus. It is like an injury. The pain of the injury will capture your focus. If you broke your arm, then you must focus on fixing the break instead of focusing on the parts of your body that are healthy. My point here is you must give your attention to what needs to be fixed but once that is healed, then it is time to give thanks for that which you are grateful for.

Gratitude is giving thanks for the blessings in your life. Take the time each day to focus on one thing you are the most grateful for on that day. Then, at the end of the week, take an inventory of all the things you gave thanks for during the week. Write all this down. Keep this list in a box. At the time of the full Moon each month, take the list out and reread them all. Feel with emotion how fortunate you are for receiving all these blessings. Although you may feel there is a power outside yourself that is granting you these blessings, you must realize you have played a major role in multiplying these gifts.

When we focus on what is right in our lives instead of what is wrong, we become part of the universal flow. To concentrate on what is wrong stops the flow and causes blocks and setbacks. There will always be something that appears wrong with everything because this world isn’t perfect, and not according to our expectations. And what one considers wrong may not be so to another. If you have a picture of a beautiful forest and there is one dead tree, focusing on the one dead tree instead of the thousands of healthy beautiful trees will cause you to lose focus of the big picture. Life doesn’t flow, and you will be caught up in the negativity. Let life flow and focus on its beauty even though there are some imperfections. The imperfections have their merit for there is a reason for everything. The dead tree in the forest must die to fertilize the ground for the other trees to grow. Don’t dwell on the apparent imperfections. This is a form of acceptance. For there is a reason for everything, and everything is in Divine perfection. If you cannot change things, then there is no use worrying about them. To accept things the way they are and focus on the beauty in life will create a flow and harmony for more giving and a life full of prosperity.

Being in a state of gratitude and appreciation is a very positive state of mind. To be joyful in this way will attract more of this feeling to you. To appreciate the beauty and gifts you have will only multiply more of this in your life. Your outside world is always a reflection of what is going on inside you. So if your home is in disarray, then this means there is confusion within you. What a beautiful reflection you will see in your world if you have gratitude.

You will come to a point where you understand why you are here. You will understand that each and every person you perceived as a threat, or who hurt you, has given you the Divine insight into the issues and feelings you needed to release. We come to a place of gratitude for our suffering, for the suffering woke us up to the exact problems that were keeping us from our realization. We thank the people who hurt us the most, for they have given us the insight into our soul so we could see the real issues in us that we need to change, so that we can come to the place of an enlightened soul. It is all an inner journey to reveal the attitudes that keep us from this ultimate realization.

Resentments are the powerful emotions that keep us reincarnating here on earth to work out. We are so emotionally attached to these resentments. Our teachers are the ones who activate our resentments the very most. If you can recognize they are here to teach you that you are here to release these resentments, then you will be full of great gratitude. This realization will give you the freedom and realization of what you came here to learn. You will be free, never suffer or hurt again. You will know only love. This isn’t about forgiveness, for there is nothing to forgive. This is one of the most important keys to our ultimate understanding. Forgiveness means there is something wrong. There is nothing wrong. Our focus needs to be on what is right instead of what is wrong. Gratitude focuses on what is right. There is only gratitude in all of this. Gratitude will release you from the suffering and pain of this world. You are love, joy, happiness, and oneness. You are a part of the almighty power; you are one with God.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others
Marcus T. Cicero 106-43 BC

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

After rereading this chapter, I now understand why this was the message that kept coming to me loud and clear as to what we are here to do amidst these incredibly difficult times on our planet. Realizing everything is happening for a Divine reason and we are here to grow in awareness, consciousness, and spiritually, then there must be an important lesson in these trying times. Even though it may seem impossible to find something to be grateful for at this time, it is the only way to overcome the negativity rampant on the planet now. When you come from a place of gratitude, you come from a place of love and perceive the world from a place of love, acceptance, and beauty. You will receive and create wonderment and happiness in your life and this multiplies outward into the world.

Predictions

September 02: Mercury enters Virgo, Full Moon 16 degrees Aquarius
Mercury in Virgo is another strong indicator this month in the area of finding cures for disease and particularly the coronavirus. Mercury is the planet for communications and connections. Virgo is the sign for health and healing and this empowers minds in a way that healing and better communications are sought around the world.

The full Moon in Aquarius is another indicator for advances in healing humanity and cures as
the full Moon is in the nakshatra Shatabhishak, which also pertains to healing as it is said to be the hundred healers.

September 03: Saturn quincunx Rahu 1 degree Capricorn/Gemini
This is a difficult aspect as it represents an unharmonious time with government leadership. This will not help the issue concerning the fight over mail-in votes as Saturn is in Capricorn ruling government and Gemini rules the ways we connect and communicate, and, therefore, rules the mail service. This will be a major debate at this time.

September 09: Mars Retrograde 4 degrees Aries
Mars is the planet of war, anger, and violence, and the sign Aries is most associated with action and impulsive energy. This retrograde period will magnify anger and hostility globally. Retrogrades reveal issues from the past that need to be healed. This sign and nakshatra issues of anger will resurface such as racial and political concerns around the world. The nakshatra Ashwini pertains to healing and travel. These will be issues to be worked out to heal the global pandemic and travel on all levels, such as airlines, trains, and ships. This can even represent danger or accidents involving travel.

September 13: Jupiter Direct 23 degrees Sagittarius
Jupiter moving direct is a big indicator of the world moving forward instead of the delays and setbacks experienced before. This is another indicator of forward movement in the progress of eliminating the coronavirus. Optimism and confidence in freedom from the global lock-down is finally here. The last time Jupiter transited over this degree was around February 20, 2020 when the coronavirus was becoming a major threat. Now that Jupiter is finally transiting forward in Sagittarius, it will bring the realization of the spiritual transformation that is here to stay. Expect exciting news in the area of healing and an awakening with new trends towards opening the minds and hearts to a more spiritually awakened world.

September 19: Rahu enters Taurus/Ketu enters Scorpio
Rahu in Taurus and Ketu in Scorpio are exalted in these signs meaning this is a time of great healing. When Rahu and Ketu leave the signs Gemini and Sagittarius, there is always a healing from the aftermath of what the nakshatras Ardra and Mula produce. Once Ketu has passed through the last ghandanta degrees of Scorpio, then there will be a major healing globally. This will be in the beginning of 2021. Rahu in Taurus will empower the economy around the world as well.

September 24: Mercury opposes Mars 02 Libra/Aries
Conflicts and aggression surfaces. There is a strong deadlock in beliefs especially in the political scene around the world. Arguments, disagreements, and conflicts begin to heat up.

September 27: Venus enters Leo
Creative energy runs high as optimism begins to return around the world. Music and movies inspire souls and consume the media. Indications of leadership begin to give hope again.

September 29: Mars square Saturn 1 degree Aries/Capricorn, Saturn Direct 1 degree Capricorn
Cardinal signs seem to dominate the heavens, which means forward movement in all areas of life (Mars in Aries, Mercury in Libra, Saturn in Capricorn). Saturn stationing direct is another indication that the economy will improve and countries will become prosperous. Saturn in Capricorn means there will be a transformation in the way that the economy and the government is run. Mars and Saturn will indicate setbacks and delays in the economy at the time of this aspect but will quickly be resolved as Saturn begins to move direct. If the stock market is affected by this square, then it could be time to invest because I see a quick reversal.———-Joni Patry

Professor Loury always makes sense. Must be something about studying economics, despite the field’s reputation of impracticality.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/08/31/in-racialising-everything-we-are-playing-with-fire/

The wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd rolls on. Riots have erupted in Kenosha, Wisconsin after the shooting of a black man by police, and two protesters have been killed. The US seems as divided as at any time in its recent history. But is America really a ‘structurally racist’ country, and are its police truly oppressing black people?

Glenn Loury is an American economist, author and commentator. He was the first ever tenured black professor of economics at Harvard University, and is currently a professor of social sciences and economics at Brown University. He joined spiked editor Brendan O’Neill for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. What follows is an edited extract from their conversation.

Babygate was a bridge too far even for this Leftist.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/meta-arguments-about-anti-racism/615424/

Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart
What a viral story reveals about contemporary leftist discourse

AUGUST 20, 2020

Conor Friedersdorf

Lessons from history from a professor of classics – a collage of topics but a unified theme.
https://amgreatness.com/2020/08/30/cultural-suicide-is-painless/

The story of all Dark Ages is that when civilizations finally prefer suicide, they do it easily, and the remnants flock to the countryside to preserve what they can—allowing the cities go on with their ritual self-destruction.

By Victor Davis Hanson • August 30, 2020

The problem is no one really believes Biden and the Democrats are sincere in their criticism of rioters. Because they aren’t. Deep down they can’t square their sympathy for the “root grievances” of protesters and rioters with the political necessity of being credible in fighting against rioting, which would mean Portland and Seattle, for starters, would sweep the streets and not let people go hours later with no bail. (It would also help if Democrats, including some of Kamala Harris’s staff apparently, hadn’t contributed to fund drives to bail out protesters and rioters in the few places where bail is being set.)

Ultimately this connects to the contempt most liberal Democrats have for the country, and have had for a long time. We keep hearing from the left that Trump is “shredding political norms,” but who is it who wants to abolish the Senate and the electoral college, repeal the 2nd Amendment, tinker with the First Amendment to allow censorship of “hate speech,” pack the Supreme Court, and admit DC and Puerto Rico as states just to add four more Democrats to the Senate? And that’s before you ask for any Democrat to make a criticism of the 1619 Project. I’m not aware of a single one yet who has done so. But remember: Trump’s tweets are mean!

This has a long history. People think the “Blame America First Democrats” was an invention of Jeanne Kirkpatrick in 1984, but it goes back much further than that. At the height of the urban rioting in the 1960s, Hubert Humphrey remarked that had he lived in a ghetto he could have led a pretty good riot himself—a remark he later came to regret and tried to walk back. In 1971 Walter Mondale remarked that “The sickening truth is that this country is rapidly coming to resemble South Africa.” Shirley MacLaine said in 1972 that “Right now the social soul of America is so sick that even the overthrow of a political regime may be insufficient.” I can go on with pages of statements like this from Democratic politicians, leading journalists, and, naturally, academics.

other words, what we’re seeing today is the essential DNA of the modern Democratic Party coming to the fore amidst a crisis, and a lot of voters can perceive this clearly, which is why the polls are tightening.

Notice that condemnation is only required for one side of the confrontation.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/31/donald-trump-to-cnn-your-supporters-shot-and-killed-my-supporter-in-portland/

President Donald Trump criticized CNN on Monday after a reporter asked him to condemn his supporters who were in Portland on Saturday night.

During a White House press conference with the president, CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins asked Trump to condemn a group of his supporters who traveled to Portland for a counter-protest on Saturday night. Some of Trump’s supporters were reportedly firing paintball guns at protesters from their pickup trucks as leftists threw objects and debris at them. Aaron J. Danielson of Portland, identified as a Trump supporter, was shot dead during the clash between the different groups.

“That was a peaceful protest,” Trump said. “Paint is a defensive mechanism, paint is not bullets.”

“It’s a paintball gun, it’s a bullet,” Collins replied.

“Your supporters — they are your supporters indeed — shot a young gentleman and killed him,” Trump continued. “Not with paint but with a bullet. I think it is disgraceful.”

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/08/31/joe-biden-calls-trump-supporters-an-armed-militia-in-this-country/

The former vice president, who will face Trump in November as the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, spoke after a weekend in which a Trump supporter was shot and killed in downtown Portland.

That supporter was also a member of a right-wing group, Patriot Prayer, which is not a militia.

Biden may have been referring to accusations, yet unproven, that 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three and killed two people during a riot last week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was a member of a militia.

Bide was criticized for failing to condemn the riots even though he condemned police for the shooting of Jacob Blake, 29, that triggered the unrest last Sunday.

https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2020/08/31/bernie-sanders-accuses-president-trump-inciting-violence-across-country/

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Monday accused President Trump of inciting violence across the country but failed to provide any specific examples to support the weighty accusation.
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Sanders’ commentary comes as Democrat politicians continue to offer measured responses to the violence plaguing U.S. cities, such as Portland and Kenosha. Few have been quick to condemn the protester violence against not just members of law enforcement, but politicians, as was seen last Thursday following the conclusion of President Trump’s Republican National Convention address.

Black Lives Matter protesters swarmed Sanders’ colleague, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), in the nation’s capital. That same night, protesters harassed Georgia House Rep. Vernon Jones (D-GA). He referred to the protesters as a “violent mob of supporters of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”

Despite the documented cases of violence, looting, and destruction, far-left progressives have been slow to condemn the lawlessness in U.S. cities, diverting their attention to the meaning of the greater “movement.”
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Neither of them [AOC and Tlaib] condemned the violence plaguing U.S. cities for months on end in the brief interviews, but they and their progressive counterparts have been quick to cast blame on Trump for the violence, much like Sanders did on Monday.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/31/fact-check-joe-biden-falsely-claims-trump-did-not-condemn-violence/

While it is true that Trump focused on left-wing violence — which is the dominant form of political violence today — it is false to claim that the president did not condemn political violence in general. He certainly did so, in full view of the press.

In his statement, Biden also took Trump to task for failing to “repudiate one of his supporters who is charged with murder because of his attacks on others.” He is referring to the Kyle Rittenhouse case. It is not entirely clear what Rittenhouse’s political views are. [AF: I think it’s pretty obvious, actually.] Regardless, the president said that the case needed to be investigated, and correctly pointed out that Rittenhouse killed his attackers as he was trying to flee. There is currently no evidence that Rittenhouse initiated the attack.

On the other hand:
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2020/08/31/trump-to-supporters-leave-it-to-law-enforcement/

President Donald Trump told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that he wants his supporters to “leave it to law enforcement” when it comes to confronting violent left-wing activists.

Ingraham asked Trump to respond to his rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, who called Trump supporters “an armed militia in this country.” Trump defended his supporters and said Biden was “weak,” noting that Democrats had lost control of violent left-wing mobs in the cities that they governed.

Ingraham then asked: “But do you want your supporters to confront the left-wing protesters, or do you want to leave it to law enforcement?”

Trump responded: “No, no, no, I don’t want them — I want them to leave it to law enforcement.”

The problem, Trump explained, was the lack of political support for law enforcement, and Democrats’ refusal in some cases to accept help from the National Guard and federal law enforcement agencies when they could not control left-wing riots.

Earlier in the evening, Biden had falsely accused Trump of failing to denounce violence at a White House press briefing.

In fact, Trump said that “violence has no place in American political discourse.”

Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), encouraged her supporters to contribute toward bailing out arrestees in Minneapolis, Minnesota during riots earlier this year.

Those who were bailed out included several people who had been arrested on charges of violent criminal behavior, including murder and attempted murder.

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/08/31/biden-pro-trump-protesters-were-spoiling-for-a-fight-in-portland/

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday that the pro-Trump caravan that drove through Portland, Oregon, on Sunday was “spoiling for a fight.”
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In a statement, Biden condemned the use of violence by all sides, but then blamed President Donald Trump for “incitement.”

He also said: “It is not a peaceful protest when you out go out spoiling for a fight.” He has made no similar criticism of the left-wing activists who have rioted in recent months.

Critics suggested that Biden was blaming the victim.

Byron York of the Washington Examiner wrote: “[Biden’s] conclusion: It’s all President Trump’s fault. When a Trump supporter shoots a rioter in Kenosha, Wisconsin, it’s Trump’s fault. When a rioter shoots a Trump supporter in Portland, it’s Trump’s fault. And in that latter case, Biden suggested, the victim was asking for it.”

Remember which Party is supporting the riots, and which one is trying to stop them.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/31/foundation-with-biden-campaign-ties-funding-leftist-agitators-on-u-s-streets/#.X00w-9TDenM.twitter

Claiming to be America’s second-largest private foundation, the Ford Foundation has poured almost $2 billion into groups active in “disrupting systems to advance social justice,” according to its grant database.

The Ford Foundation boasts key members of the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaign as alumni executives. Harris’s sister and ex-campaign chairwoman Maya Harris served as the Ford foundation’s vice president alongside Biden’s now senior advisor, Cristóbal Alex, who served as its program director during the Obama presidency.

Some of Obama’s top staffers are now Ford Foundation’s top staffers. Taara Rangarajan, now Ford’s chief of staff, served as Obama’s national security advisor from 2013-2016. Before that, she served as a special assistant to Susan Rice during the Benghazi affair. Another Ford exec, Xavier de Souza Briggs, served as President Obama’s associate director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Lots of details and connections to radical activist groups follow.

The Ford Foundation is financing a network of insurgents that intimidate elected officials and citizens to bring about dangerous political change. The FBI defines using intimidation and violence to achieve political ends as domestic terrorism.

Like other private foundations, Ford is governed only by basic IRS filing requirements and has virtually no public oversight. With woke leaders like Cisco’s CEO Chuck Robbins, Ford Motor Company’s Henry Ford III, and abortion giant Planned Parenthood’s former president Cecile Richards sitting on Ford’s board, be assured it will not cut off the funding to these Democrat street squads.

And remember that the people calling themselves conservatives or Republicans may no longer understand what those words mean.
Add this bunch to the GW Bush, John McCain, and Romney staffers now openly working for the Democrats.
I used to kind of shake my head at the railing against RINOs and GOPe, but I don’t anymore.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/31/jeb-bush-consultants-work-help-biden-florida/

Former consultants for failed Republican presidential primary candidate Jeb Bush are now working with a “Never Trump”-associated group to help Democrat Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris win the swing state of Florida.

The group “Republican Voters Against Trump,” funded by Never Trump’s Bill Kristol, Sarah Longwell, and Tim Miller, is spearheading an initiative to flip Florida blue this election cycle. The group has tapped former Bush consultants Mike Murphy and David Hill to help elect Biden.
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The former Bush consultants and Never Trump group have branded the effort “Project Orange Crush,” spending between $8 million to $10 million in the next couple of months on advertising targeted to moderate Republican voters and swing voters.

“Our plan is to surgically target the key 450,000 Independents and soft Republicans who will decide the election,” a memo obtained by the Herald reads.
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The Republican establishment, based almost exclusively in Washington, DC, and made up of consultants, donors, and political operatives, has been opposed to Trump’s economic nationalist agenda since the 2015 GOP presidential primary when they unsuccessfully attempted to stop him.

They really don’t like the way President Trump has derailed their Gravy Train.

https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/08/30/forget-polling-democratic-reactions-to-the-riots-are-about-calling-it-a-two-sided-war-of-extremism/

Worth noting about the tentatively identified Portland shooter (there’s been more than one, and I’m not posting anything directly here because we don’t know for sure): he isn’t wearing the characteristic all-black clothing of the organized Antifa, BLM, and other black-bloc agitators. If he’s the shooter, there’s a good possibility that he isn’t dressed in all black because he didn’t want to be too readily identifiable as Antifa. I’ve seen two potential IDs so far, in fact, and neither man is dressed in the Antifa manner.
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That last point makes a nice segue into the primary reason for this post. It’s essential to recognize that what’s happening around us cannot be properly explained with one-dimensional thinking; e.g., if someone who’s rioting with Antifa and shoots a Patriot Prayer rallier isn’t dressed like Antifa, that means he’s not Antifa.

It doesn’t mean that. It’s possible that that will turn out to be the case. But the people organizing to riot night after night, coming with arsenals and props and their own food-service coaches, aren’t doing it for giggles, with no thought to where it’s headed. They have a goal. They have, in fact, thought about tactics, strategy, next steps and consequences. They have done so; it’s others who haven’t.

All of that is the set-up for the main point. Which is this: too many commentators are missing the real significance of the last few days. They are looking at the media’s sudden about-face on the riots – shifting from refusing to name them to actively condemning them – and accepting the narrative that this is about “internal polling” on American sentiment toward the riots.

I’m afraid that’s one-dimensional thinking. We can’t afford it. We have to think faster than that. We have to think faster because the behind-the-scenes thought leaders of the rapidly-transforming Democratic Party already have (as have many in the mainstream media). I’m sure there are still many Democratic voters, and party workers at the county level, who are only dimly aware of what’s going on. But the Democrats have become too radicalized at the national level for us to assume they’re clueless about the role of Antifa and other black blocs – whom Democrats continue to enable – in a socialist “revolution.”

The Democrats’ turn on a dime, from ignoring the riots to condemning them, occurred within a couple of hours of one event: the shootings by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha.

That’s the event the radical playbook was waiting for. That was the event that opened the narrative to the prospect of a two-sided street war, with actual pushback and violence coming from the “other side.”
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Up to then, there was obviously nothing two-sided about what was going on. On one side, arson and looting and vandalism, shrieking and intimidation and destruction, taunting of police and waylaying of innocent bystanders. On the “other side,” tears and anguish, as lives were upended and livelihoods burned to the ground.

But once Kyle Rittenhouse had fired his first shot, the Left had something to condemn that could be said to involve “violence” from the “other side,” and could be characterized as a two-sided outbreak of vicious extremism.

They were waiting for it. Most observers probably didn’t realize that’s what they were waiting for. But it bears some resemblance, albeit superficial at the moment, to the pattern of provocation and retaliation that defined the street war of Soviet-backed “international socialists” versus “national socialists,” or Nazis, in the Weimar Germany of the 1920s and early 1930s.

The Stalinist “international socialists” are the side Antifa affects to carry a banner for. The Weimar Republic street war is their touchstone: the world-historical conflict they take as their model and inspiration.

Antifa’s orthodoxies and slogans uniformly mirror those of Stalinism in the 1930s. One of the chief ones is that their purpose is to oppose fascist, heretical national socialism – which must exist, in their now somewhat tautological thinking, because they do.

There are no organized Nazis in the U.S. on the scope and model of Hitler’s horde, however. So the media, and prominent cultural figures on the Left, and even a number of supposedly moderate Democrats are going to start a campaign of lying – literally lying – to proclaim that there are.

The sudden Democratic condemnation of the riots started at the exact moment they had the slightest pretext to do this.

We can hope we still have this going for us: the pattern of self-exposure we keep seeing over and over with each new tack the Left tries. They’re not getting away with it, because they’re not deceiving much of the public now. For months, it’s been like watching a toddler trying to manipulate an adult and being caught repeatedly with his hand in the cookie jar and an oopsie in his Pull-Ups.

But even if the intent to manipulate and deceive is still blatantly obvious, the fact is still that shooting has started. That makes it more dangerous than laughable.

PORTLAND, OR—In an effort to prevent the reelection of sitting President Donald Trump, Mayor Ted Wheeler is encouraging citizens to raze their city to the ground. They hope that by desolating the entire city and reducing it to nothing more than smoking heaps of ash, that Trump won’t stand a chance in 2020.

“This is a small price to pay, if it means getting literally Hitler out of office,” said Mayor Ted Wheeler pouring gasoline throughout the city. “Now burn those buildings down! Burn them all!”
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So far there have been no signs of these actions negatively affecting Trump’s re-election chances. Confusingly, some polls even show Trump gaining ground.

https://babylonbee.com/news/michelle-obama-shares-with-tens-of-millions-how-exhausted-she-is-by-no-one-paying-attention-to-her

U.S.—Michelle Obama, a black woman over whom the media fawned for 8 years and beyond, said on her extremely popular podcast last week that black women are ignored and might as well not even exist in Trump’s America.

She made the comments to her massive, adoring crowd of followers who worship the ground she walks on. Her statements were immediately reported on and echoed and enthusiastically shared by scores of adoring journalists, bloggers, and social media activists. Her bold statement that black women are invisible became the talk of the country for days on end.

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-growing-increasingly-worried-biden-will-live-through-election-day

U.S.—Democrats around the nation are growing increasingly worried that their candidate for President, Joe Biden, will live through election day, November 3rd, 2020. Biden had surprised Democrats around the nation when he spoke for an extended period of time off a teleprompter at the Democratic National Convention, causing a bit of a panic among Democratic Party operatives and voters.

This concern comes at a time when national polling among likely voters shows the race tightening between Biden and Trump, after weeks of Biden holding on to a commanding lead.
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“Biden is a great pick for us because he reassures middle America that he isn’t a total left-wing nutjob, while at the same time, he speaks to all the left-wing nutjobs that he won’t be around for very long. If he throws a wrench in that by looking vibrant, coherent, and less than senile, I’m not sure how we are going to capture the progressive vote we alienated before in 2016.”

At publishing time, the DNC was throwing the idea around that maybe they should be airing ads that make Biden look a little more on the verge of dying to reassure progressives.