Oh No -- Another Summer of Love!
Better put your helmet on
So what comes next with these campus protestors? Having been up close on them — and being familiar with the dynamics, from my prior life — here’s a quick vid on what we’re likely in for:
Another Summer of Love! This one could leave a mark….
Flanagan Writes…
Chris weighs in today with an absolute must-read on the historic relationship between communism and antisemitism — and how it’s embedded in the current protests:
Even in the early days of the USSR, the communists were opposed to the state of Israel. Vladimir Lenin saw the Zionist project as an imperialist play by the west. After coming to the realization that Israel would not be a communist state, Stalin was an open supporter of the Palestine liberation movement….
Click on the above to head over to the website for the whole thing. Trust me, it’s stuff you won’t see elsewhere.
Bragg’s Folly
So readers of this space have seen my breakdown of the Alvin Bragg “case” in a previous posting. Alas, I didn’t do it justice. It has now grown into almost a parody of a prosecution.
As we’ve noted, the only way Bragg could defeat the statute of limitations on a misdemeanor was to bump the 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records to felonies — by saying that the 34 false accounting entries were made in service to an unnamed second crime.
Incredibly, that second crime is still not entirely clear — but it appears now to be a New York State statute against conspiring to impede an election.
There are two problems with that, however:
The 34 entries in question — that is, the action supporting the first charge — were not made until after Donald Trump had won the election. So essentially, this theory boils down to: Donald Trump conspired to make 34 false entries into a ledger on an election he’d already won. (It’s also doubtful this state conspiracy charge applies to federal elections, by the way).
In his testimony (as a prosecution witness, no less), David Pecker, the publisher of The National Enquirer, testified that he paid for stories about Trump’s alleged affairs with Karen MacDougal and Stormy Daniels — stories which he never published as part of a “catch-and-kill” scheme. Pecker further testified that when he asked Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, about reimbursement, Cohen stated, “the boss will take care of it” — hence the conspiracy.
But here’s the thing. Pecker went on to say that later, when he mentioned all this to Trump: Trump “knew nothing about it.”
It’s a basic of any conspiracy charge: you cannot be party to a conspiracy you don’t know about.
Oh, and remember one thing more: Whatever actions Trump took, he took them on advice of his counsel — Michael Cohen, who is the chief witness in the case.
Meaning: Cohen will be accusing Donald Trump of conspiracy — for following Cohen’s own legal advice.
Parody.
I’ve become convinced: Bragg knows the case will never hold up on appeal, should a conviction be achieved. He’s relying on a Manhattan jury’s bias against Trump, and that the inevitable reversal will only come after the election.
Podcast: Dispatch From The Border, Part II
For those with access, tune in to the second part of our podcast interview with 27-year Border Patrol Agent Shawn Moran, former Vice President of the Border Patrol Union.
Think things are bad down there? Nah — they’re worse.
Shawn has seen it all, and then some (including what happens when a migrant falls off the 30-foot “Trump Wall” — on our side — which is apparently common).
He’ll also tell you what the real difference between the approaches of Joe Biden and Donald Trump has been.
Oh, And By The Way — Crime…
Let’s nationalize the issue for a moment, as Joe Biden has done with statements like, “Last year, the murder rate saw the sharpest decrease in history, and violent crime fell to one of the lowest levels in more than 50 years.”
Here’s how that actually looks on the ground:
Oops. Sorry, Mr. President.
And as we’ve often stated here, the policies from the left ostensibly designed to help people-of-color do exactly the opposite. Check this (click the image for the link):
(courtesy, whitecollarfraud.com)
So: Blacks have a relative risk of being victims of crime by percent-of-population four times that of the closest group, Hispanics. And after those two groups, everyone else has a negative risk.
Click the above graphic to see some truly amazing analysis. The truth is undeniable: progressive “criminal justice reform” is literally killing people. Mostly: those the virtue-signalers claim to be helping.
A Modest Proposal
In 2019, in a move that stunned the world, Donald Trump became the first sitting POTUS to visit North Korea — and suggested to the Little Rocket Man that he, Donald Trump, assist North Korea in developing their economy.
A centerpiece of the strategy: an offer to help develop the country’s long coastline with resorts and hotels, to create an “Asian Riviera.”
It was fantastical, naive, and strangely… hopeful. For once, it wasn’t bellicose rhetoric and rockets shot into the Sea of Japan.
Now nothing came of it, of course. The Chinese would only get in the way — and who knows, maybe they did — and Rocket Man is never going to loosen his hold. BUT… could such a proposal work for Gaza?
Gaza could be another Dubai. The nation is one long waterfront. And God knows it’s going to have to be rebuilt.
The Trump campaign should devise an actual plan to help develop the place along these lines, conditioned on the following:
All hostages must already be freed;
Hamas must be eradicated and any residue kept far from the trough (much as the Allies engaged in a “de-Nazification” strategy post-WW II);
A thorough-and-ongoing monitoring program must be in place as the development goes forward — with a plan to eventually turn the resorts over to Gazans (yes, yes, I know — choosing who is the rub. Work that out later).
Is this just as fantastical and naive as the North Korean proposal? Sure. But it’s something. And something is better than nothing.
And if Trump could handle urban bureaucracy, the labor unions, and the mafia when he built his buildings in New York, Atlantic City, and elsewhere back in the day… well, maybe he’s got a shot.
Get the Emirates onboard. What they’ve done in Abu Dhabi and Dubai is miraculous. The Saudis, too.
And who knows? Much of the world will want him to succeed. Maybe he can pull it off.
If nothing else — it’s a great campaign move.
And finally…
This wouldn’t work in New York, I don’t think:
But… maybe on the Columbia campus?
