vdare--2020-11-27--An Unofficial Transition, Cat Fight Over Georgia, LATE On Birthright Citizenship, And Anti-Whiteness

An Unofficial Transition, Cat Fight Over Georgia, LATE On Birthright Citizenship, And Anti-Whiteness In Schools, Etc.

01m44s An unofficial transition .
( But Trump has n't quit yet . )
05m40s State of play in the States .
( Rudy 's Six . )
25m05s The way we were .
( Silly data story . )
31m48s Anti-whiteness , proud and unashamed .
( But the worm is turning . )
01—Intro .
And Radio Derb is on the air .
Welcome , listeners , from your thankfully genial host John Derbyshire with yet another edition—it 's actually number 768—of Radio Derb , your window on the world .
Before proceeding , just a reminder that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Giving Tuesday : a livestream beginning at 8pm that evening , December 1st , of myself and the boss giving a guided tour of the VDARE castle at Berkeley Springs , West Virginia .
This will be my first visit to the castle .
I look forward to inspecting the moat , the portcullis , the merlons and embrasures , the ravelins and the drawbridge , the barbican and the bailey , the … Oh , for Heaven 's sake , Derb , put away the damn Thesaurus for once .
I am @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and to sharing it with you via the wonders of livestreaming next Tuesday .
Now , the main course .
02—An unofficial transition .
So … how are we doing with that Presidential election thing , coming up to a month after the vote ?
Seems like just yesterday , does n't it ?
Probably the most significant event this week was the statement on Monday by GSA head Emily Murphy that federal agencies will start co-ordinating with Joe Biden and his people on a transition of executive power .
Monday was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course be on January 20th , following the Inauguration .
The GSA , General Services Administration , is a federal agency handling routine support work for the feds .
It 's in the same sort of relation to the actual , glamorous federal agencies like Treasury and Defense as the maintenance crew in an office building is to the cube jockeys , sales reps , and corner-office bosses who carry out the company 's actual business .
Ms Murphy started the transition with exquisite attention to protocol .
The salutation on the letter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ read `` Dear Mr. Biden , '' not `` Dear President-Elect Biden , '' as would normally be the case .
Given the news , President Trump tweeted back that , tweet : As the President indicated , he has by no means conceded defeat .
His team , along with independent outfits like The Public Interest Legal Foundation and some individual voters , have legal challenges alive in several states .
It 's hard to keep up with these unless you 're a dedicated follower of retail politics , which I am @ @ @ @ @ @ @ help , though .
The BBC has one , although they always seem to be three or four days behind .
The Wall Street Journal has one that 's nicely up-to-date , but you have to be a subscriber .
I 've been using the one at Associated Press , just because it gives an easy state-by-state summary , but you could probably find something better with a bit of googling .
The Electoral College meets two weeks this coming Monday , so presumably things will be sorted out by then .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into the constitutional weeds—faithless electors , votes in the House , Supreme Court Justices putting in for overtime , the whole 1876 mess over again .
What are the odds ?
Let me take a brief look at latest developments .
New segment .
03—State of play in the States .
At his November 19th presser Rudy Giuliani identified six states where his team , on behalf of President Trump , was concentrating their efforts .
The six were : Arizona , Georgia , Michigan , Nevada , Pennsylvania , and Wisconsin .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ When listening to what follows you 'll hear the words `` certify '' and `` certification '' a lot .
Where legal challenges to election results are concerned , it 's understood ( though I do n't think it 's explicitly codified anywhere ) that a successful challenge is way more difficult after the results have been officially certified by the state .
So in this case the Biden people really , really want to get to certification and the Trump team really , really want to stall them .
• Arizona is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Monday , November 30th .
The state GOP is preparing a lawsuit to have the election annulled , the lawsuit to be filed next week .
This will be the fifth lawsuit of its kind in Arizona ; the first four went nowhere .
I ca n't judge the chances of this one .
If it does go anywhere , the whole election will have to be done over ; so this is not a matter of a few hundred votes here or there to be added or subtracted .
• Georgia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Biden , of course .
The margin of victory was tiny , though , and Trump 's people have demanded another recount , as they are entitled to under state law .
That recount is under way .
Still in Georgia , Wednesday this week Attorney Sidney Powell , now working on her own since the Trump team dropped her , filed a new lawsuit alleging massive irregularities , including in the area of issues with the vote-counting software .
I 'm not clear whether a victory for the plaintiffs will mean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but it seems it might .
The Georgia situation is of course all happening under the cloud of those January 5th runoff elections for the state 's U.S. Senate seats .
Will all the litigating and arguing turn voters against the GOP for being sore losers , or will they energize Trump 's voter base ?
Opinions differ .
• Michigan certified its election result on Monday—another win for Biden .
However , a panel of lawyers representing six Michigan Republicans is asking for the courts to overturn the certification .
Three of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ electors if Trump can be shown to have won the state .
Present on that panel of lawyers is , yes , Attorney Sidney Powell .
• Nevada 's state supreme court certified Joe Biden 's win on Tuesday .
There 's been a slew of legal challenges—I counted seven , but probably missed a couple .
Nevada was one of four states that decided , on account of the COVID pandemic , to mail ballots out to all voters .
( Five other states already did this pre-pandemic . )
The mailed-in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and featured in at least four of those lawsuits .
• Pennsylvania 's the big one .
I 've lost count of the lawsuits here .
Last week the Trump team tried to get the election result thrown out altogether , again stressing mailed-in ballots as a primary source of fraud .
A judge dismissed the suit last Saturday .
The next day , Sunday , Trump 's people filed an appeal with the 3rd U.S .
Circuit Court of Appeals .
This could potentially go all the way up to the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a different lawsuit based on fine points of the Pennsylvania state constitution , a state court issued an injunction suspending certification of the election results pending a hearing today , Friday .
Friday afternoon that hearing decided against the plaintiffs .
Whether the Trump campaign will appeal , whether such an appeal might go all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court , and whether Pennsylvania will now go ahead and complete certification , I do n't know , do n't know , and do n't know .
• In Wisconsin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two counties at the Trump team 's insistence .
Certification is due December 1st .
Meanwhile a group of Republican voters has filed a 39-page lawsuit to block certification , citing numerous irregularities .
One that particularly caught my eye alleges that a nonprofit group funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife was used to dodge the state 's absentee voting laws .
Just imagine : an upstanding citizen like Zuck involved in vote-diddling .
Unthinkable !
That 's a quick ' n'dirty rundown as I go to tape here on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ judge , the odds on a huge 1876-style constitutional mess are small .
With three of Rudy 's six battleground states already past certification , Arizona due to certify Monday and Wisconsin Tuesday , Pennsylvania apparently free to certify following today 's ruling—but , as I said , I do n't know the precise law there : perhaps they 'll have to wait until appeals are exhausted—with all of that , for Trump 's people to get any kind of favorable result is way harder than it was two weeks ago .
To @ @ @ @ @ @ @ College means actually annulling at least two state results .
It does n't look good , and when you read about the latest legal moves—I 've spent a lot of time reading about them—it 's hard to avoid the impression that at this point the Trump lawyers are just going through the motions … no pun intended .
04—Trump phones in .
Pretty dry stuff , that .
However , there are some sidebar stories to it all that got at least wan smiles from your genial host .
First sidebar story .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rudy Giuliani and his people , held a public meeting at the Wyndham hotel in Gettysburg , Pa. to air complaints about voting fraud .
President Trump had said he would attend in person , but he had to cancel when a campaign staffer tested positive for coronavirus .
He attended anyway , though—by phone .
He dialed in and Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis held her cellphone up to a speaker 's mike so the whole room could hear him .
The President spoke for eleven minutes .
I wo n't @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can find them on YouTube : Just put `` Pennsylvania Senate Hearing '' in the search box .
I 'll give you the first minute and the last minute .
Listen to the reactions from the GOP foot-soldiers there .
If the bid to change the election result fails , it wo n't be for lack of enthusiastic support from the troops .
Speaking of troops : Several of the media outlets reporting this event made a point of mentioning that the Wyndham hotel in Gettysburg , where it took place , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pickett 's Charge , the climax of the Battle of Gettysburg , which , if it had succeeded , could have made Robert E. Lee the battle 's victor .
It did n't succeed .
Lee lost the battle and retired with his army back into Virginia .
One more sidebar story .
I think I 'd better give it a segment of its own .
05—Cat fight over Georgia .
OK , a second sidebar story .
This one concerns the state of Georgia .
That state 's 14th congressional district , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the state , glories in being ( according to Wikipedia ) the 10th most Republican district in the nation .
Further quote from Wikipedia , quote : In this recent election , Georgia 's 14th was won by congressional newcomer Marjorie Taylor Greene .
Representative-elect Greene won many hearts , including mine , back in June by posting an ad of herself cradling an AR-15 rifle while warning Antifa to , quote , `` Stay the hell out of NW Georgia . ''
There are three other participants in this little sidebar drama @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in one of those January 5th runoff elections for the U.S. Senate : Republican Kelly Loeffler , the current junior senator for the state , and Democrat Raphael Warnock , her challenger .
Warnock is a preacher—a black preacher of the Jeremiah Wright variety .
Senator Loeffler 's Republican campaign has dug up a video clip from a 2011 sermon he preached in which he says , quote : Now Georgia is a state with a lot of military installations and more than the average number of veterans , so finding that video @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I promised you three other dramatis personæ in addition to Representative-elect Greene , the gal with the AR-15 .
Senator Loeffler and her challenger Pastor Warnock make two .
Here 's Number Three : Rep. Ilhan Omar from Minnesota 's 5th district .
I 'm sure Rep. Omar needs no introduction , but I 'll give her one anyway .
This is the lady whose mission in life is to convert the governmental system of the U.S.A. from the evil , racist , white-supremacist Anglo-Saxon model to something more … African .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pastor Warnock , with whom she is of course in racial and partisan sympathy ; so Kelly Loeffler—the preacher 's GOP opponent : keep track here !
—gave her a poke in the eye , tweeting that , tweet : That led to an indignant denial from Rep. Omar , and a couple of vituperative Loeffler-Omar exchanges followed .
One of the people following those exchanges was the gal I started out with , locked ' n'loaded Representative-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene .
Addressing Rep. Omar , the lady tweeted the following , tweet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Omar marrying her brother as , quote , `` Unproven . ''
She sure does hate people raising the issue , though , so you can file this under `` Politics Ai n't Beanbag . ''
In Georgia , with control of the U.S. Senate at stake , it really ai n't .
It ai n't bikini-wrestling in a pit of Jell-O either , unfortunately ; but this little spat was pretty close .
Just let your imagination loose .
06—The way we were .
That 's quite enough retail politics .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take a break and tell a story—one with no connection whatever to anything in the news .
It just came to mind somehow when I was saying the phrase `` Mayor of the city of New York '' back there .
This is a silly story , and it 's about data : a silly data story .
It 's from my days as a mainframe programmer way back in the Paleolithic Era , when a computer with 96 kilobytes—kilo-bytes—of memory had a whole huge room to itself , with a mile of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ air-conditioning unit to keep it cool .
There were no monitors then—well , not in our shop—no search engines or online inquiry .
The data went in on punched cards and came out on great stacks of green-line computer print-out paper .
I worked for a company with offices all over the U.S.A. and thousands of customers .
One fixture in the office , with a cubby-hole all to itself , was a print-out of the customer file : all those thousands of customers in alphabetic order by name , printed on a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ feet high , kept on a spare desk in the cubby-hole .
Occasionally we needed to go to it to look up a customer 's number , or some detail of his account .
Now , we knew by word of mouth that one of our customers was the Mayor of New York City , at that time a quiet , inoffensive fellow named Abe Beame .
He had just recently succeeded John Lindsay .
Lindsay was the archetypal limousine liberal—somewhat like Bill De Blasio but with a three-digit IQ .
Everyone had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Beame was a great relief .
One day we needed to look up Abe Beame in that humongous print-out of the customer file .
We opened it up at the Bs , but he was n't there .
Huh ?
Someone suggested we try the As ; perhaps he 'd been filed under `` Abe '' by mistake .
No hit .
`` Abraham '' ?
Nope .
We knew he was there but we could n't find him .
We tried M for `` Mayor , '' then N for `` New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hit .
C for `` City '' ?
Nope .
O for `` Office of the Mayor '' ?
Na-uh .
I swear someone even tried G for `` Gotham . ''
Four or five programming grunts wasted half the morning—a full man-day—with that damn print-out .
At last we divided it up and just went through it by eye until we found the Mayor .
He was there under H for `` His Honor the Mayor of New York . ''
07—Miscellany .
And now , our closing miscellany of brief items @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he may issue an executive order banning birthright citizenship .
Our own Washington Watcher here at VDARE.com gave full coverage to this on Tuesday .
It 's nice that the President has finally gotten round to something he promised to do in 2016 , and of course I 'm whole-heartedly in favor .
Birthright citizenship is a dumb idea , and it has spawned a nasty little industry of obstetric tourism—pregnant women coming here from abroad just so they can give birth to a U.S. citizen .
Still , it 's hard to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If Biden comes in he can just rescind the executive order .
The kritarchs will let him do it ; there 'll be nothing like the indignant fuss and judicial obstruction there was when Trump tried to rescind Barack Obama 's DACA deal .
Getting rid of birthright citizenship is a multi-year project .
The President issues an executive order ; it 's challenged in the courts ; it becomes a topic of public debate ; you pass it off to Congress somehow for legislation ; the legislation is challenged as unconstitutional ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if against , you have to somehow get a constitutional amendment going ; … As I said , a multi-year project .
The pity is , Trump really did have those years—well , four years at least , the first two with his party in control of Congress .
He did nothing .
Now , at the last minute , this futile gesture .
Eh , it 's all so damn Trumpish .
Item : The most depressing thing I read this week was an article posted Tuesday at RealClearInvestigations.com .
Title : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anti-Racist '' Teaching Sweeps K-12 Schools Targeting `` Whiteness '' .
Yes , schools all over—Kindergartens , elementaries , middle and high schools , including tony , expensive private schools—are re-writing their curriculums to make more room for Critical Race Theory .
Random sample from the article , quote : This is anti-whiteness , proud and unashamed .
Kindergartens !
Fortunately there 's some good news if you read far enough down the article .
There 's a backlash : Parents are forming organizations resisting the anti-white indoctrination .
There 's a worthy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that I recommend to your attention .
It 's a bit cautious and cucky by Dissident Right standards ; but that 's because people are scared of the Thought Police—scared to lose their Twitter accounts , their bank accounts , their jobs .
That 's what we have come to .
It 's a good sign , though , that the worm is beginning to turn ; that white Americans , even with jobs and reputations at risk , are not going to sit passively , meekly for ever listening to their ancestors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ insulted and belittled .
That 's me being optimistic .
Hey , I do my best .
Item : Across the pond in Shakespeare 's island , the McDonald 's fast-food chain is in a spot of bother .
This is on account of their having introduced , for the holiday season , something called the Jerk Chicken Sandwich .
What is that ?
Well , we know what a sandwich is : What 's Jerk Chicken ?
Quote from the very helpful news story at the Daily Mail website , quote : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cultural appropriation , you see ?
And not merely the appropriation of any old culture , but of a culture that belonged to proud , noble indigenous people who were massacred and enslaved by evil leering white men .
The British Isles are boiling with outrage against McDonald 's for their brazen act of cultural appropriation .
Reading this news story , my own attention got snagged on that phrase `` other meats and fish . ''
What did `` other meats '' encompass for the indigenous Caribbeans ?
And for the black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Best not to inquire , perhaps .
And … Jerk Chicken Sandwich ?
The temptation is strong here , but I believe I can resist it .
I will not , I will not , I will not .
No , I absolutely will not .
Be strong , Derb , be strong !
No , I will not make any reference whatsoever to Jeffrey Toobin … Ah , darn it , it slipped out .
Sorry , listeners , sorry , really sorry … 08—Signoff .
That 's this week 's portion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for listening ; and once again , this Thanksgiving weekend , double thanks for your loyalty , support , encouragement , criticisms , and suggestions .
I do n't know any songs really apt to so much thanksgiving .
Here 's the best I can come up with : a Liverpool group from the 1960s .
No , not the Beatles , although there 's a family connection .
This is The Scaffold singing their 1967 hit `` Thank You Very Much . ''
I have to warn you that you 'll be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sing : `` Thank you very much for the Aintree Iron . ''
What the heck is that ?
Aintree is a suburb of Liverpool , home to a major racetrack—horse-racing , that is .
Okay : So what 's the Aintree Iron ?
Nobody knows—nobody except Mike McGear of The Scaffold , who wrote the lyrics .
( And who , by the way , is the younger brother of Paul McCartney .
That 's the family connection I mentioned . )
If you google `` Aintree Iron '' you 'll find @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some of them radically weird .
If Mike really knows which one is correct , he 's been keeping shtum about it for 53 years .
That 's just the first verse , though .
The rest of the song makes more sense , even if you 're not from Liverpool .
There will be more from Radio Derb next week .
[ Music clip : The Scaffold , `` Thank You Very Much . ''
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01m44s An unofficial transition. (But Trump hasn't quit yet.)
05m40s State of play in the States. (Rudy's Six.)
14m19s Trump phones in. (To Gettysburg.)
19m11s Cat fight over Georgia. (The ladies don't hold back.)
25m05s The way we were. (Silly data story.)
29m29s Trump stirs on birthright citizenship. (3 years 10 months too late.)
31m48s Anti-whiteness, proud and unashamed. (But the worm is turning.)
34m52s McDonald's cultural appropriation. (What chicken?)
38m03s Signoff. (With a 1960s Liverpool group.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air. Welcome, listeners, from your thankfully genial host John Derbyshire with yet another edition—it's actually number 768—of Radio Derb, your window on the world.
Before proceeding, just a reminder that next week at VDARE.com we have our Giving Tuesday: a livestream beginning at 8pm that evening, December 1st, of myself and the boss giving a guided tour of the VDARE castle at Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
This will be my first visit to the castle. I look forward to inspecting the moat, the portcullis, the merlons and embrasures, the ravelins and the drawbridge, the barbican and the bailey, the … Oh, for Heaven's sake, Derb, put away the damn Thesaurus for once.
I am looking forward to my visit, though, and to sharing it with you via the wonders of livestreaming next Tuesday.
Now, the main course.
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02—An unofficial transition. So … how are we doing with that Presidential election thing, coming up to a month after the vote? Seems like just yesterday, doesn't it?
Probably the most significant event this week was the statement on Monday by GSA head Emily Murphy that federal agencies will start co-ordinating with Joe Biden and his people on a transition of executive power. Monday was the start; the stop will of course be on January 20th, following the Inauguration.
The GSA, General Services Administration, is a federal agency handling routine support work for the feds. It's in the same sort of relation to the actual, glamorous federal agencies like Treasury and Defense as the maintenance crew in an office building is to the cube jockeys, sales reps, and corner-office bosses who carry out the company's actual business.
Ms Murphy started the transition with exquisite attention to protocol. The salutation on the letter to Joe Biden that made things official read "Dear Mr. Biden," not "Dear President-Elect Biden," as would normally be the case.
Given the news, President Trump tweeted back that, tweet:
We will keep up the good fight and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same.
End tweet.
As the President indicated, he has by no means conceded defeat. His team, along with independent outfits like The Public Interest Legal Foundation and some individual voters, have legal challenges alive in several states. It's hard to keep up with these unless you're a dedicated follower of retail politics, which I am really not.
There are websites to help, though. The BBC has one, although they always seem to be three or four days behind. The Wall Street Journal has one that's nicely up-to-date, but you have to be a subscriber. I've been using the one at Associated Press, just because it gives an easy state-by-state summary, but you could probably find something better with a bit of googling.
The Electoral College meets two weeks this coming Monday, so presumably things will be sorted out by then. If they aren't, we get deep into the constitutional weeds—faithless electors, votes in the House, Supreme Court Justices putting in for overtime, the whole 1876 mess over again.
What are the odds? Let me take a brief look at latest developments. New segment.
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03—State of play in the States. At his November 19th presser Rudy Giuliani identified six states where his team, on behalf of President Trump, was concentrating their efforts. The six were: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. I'll take 'em in turn.
When listening to what follows you'll hear the words "certify" and "certification" a lot. Where legal challenges to election results are concerned, it's understood (though I don't think it's explicitly codified anywhere) that a successful challenge is way more difficult after the results have been officially certified by the state. So in this case the Biden people really, really want to get to certification and the Trump team really, really want to stall them.
OK, Rudy's six battleground states.
Arizona is on schedule to certify their election result on Monday, November 30th.
The state GOP is preparing a lawsuit to have the election annulled, the lawsuit to be filed next week. This will be the fifth lawsuit of its kind in Arizona; the first four went nowhere. I can't judge the chances of this one. If it does go anywhere, the whole election will have to be done over; so this is not a matter of a few hundred votes here or there to be added or subtracted.
The state GOP is preparing a lawsuit to have the election annulled, the lawsuit to be filed next week. This will be the fifth lawsuit of its kind in Arizona; the first four went nowhere. I can't judge the chances of this one. If it does go anywhere, the whole election will have to be done over; so this is not a matter of a few hundred votes here or there to be added or subtracted. Georgia certified their election results last Friday—a win for Biden, of course. The margin of victory was tiny, though, and Trump's people have demanded another recount, as they are entitled to under state law. That recount is under way.
Still in Georgia, Wednesday this week Attorney Sidney Powell, now working on her own since the Trump team dropped her, filed a new lawsuit alleging massive irregularities, including in the area of issues with the vote-counting software. I'm not clear whether a victory for the plaintiffs will mean a total re-do of the election, but it seems it might.
The Georgia situation is of course all happening under the cloud of those January 5th runoff elections for the state's U.S. Senate seats. Will all the litigating and arguing turn voters against the GOP for being sore losers, or will they energize Trump's voter base? Opinions differ.
Still in Georgia, Wednesday this week Attorney Sidney Powell, now working on her own since the Trump team dropped her, filed a new lawsuit alleging massive irregularities, including in the area of issues with the vote-counting software. I'm not clear whether a victory for the plaintiffs will mean a total re-do of the election, but it seems it might. The Georgia situation is of course all happening under the cloud of those January 5th runoff elections for the state's U.S. Senate seats. Will all the litigating and arguing turn voters against the GOP for being sore losers, or will they energize Trump's voter base? Opinions differ. Michigan certified its election result on Monday—another win for Biden. However, a panel of lawyers representing six Michigan Republicans is asking for the courts to overturn the certification. Three of those six Republicans will be Electoral College electors if Trump can be shown to have won the state.
Present on that panel of lawyers is, yes, Attorney Sidney Powell.
Present on that panel of lawyers is, yes, Attorney Sidney Powell. Nevada's state supreme court certified Joe Biden's win on Tuesday. There's been a slew of legal challenges—I counted seven, but probably missed a couple.
Nevada was one of four states that decided, on account of the COVID pandemic, to mail ballots out to all voters. (Five other states already did this pre-pandemic.) The mailed-in ballots are controversial in the state, and featured in at least four of those lawsuits.
Nevada was one of four states that decided, on account of the COVID pandemic, to mail ballots out to all voters. (Five other states already did this pre-pandemic.) The mailed-in ballots are controversial in the state, and featured in at least four of those lawsuits. Pennsylvania's the big one. I've lost count of the lawsuits here.
Last week the Trump team tried to get the election result thrown out altogether, again stressing mailed-in ballots as a primary source of fraud. A judge dismissed the suit last Saturday. The next day, Sunday, Trump's people filed an appeal with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. This could potentially go all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, in relation to a different lawsuit based on fine points of the Pennsylvania state constitution, a state court issued an injunction suspending certification of the election results pending a hearing today, Friday.
Friday afternoon that hearing decided against the plaintiffs. Whether the Trump campaign will appeal, whether such an appeal might go all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, and whether Pennsylvania will now go ahead and complete certification, I don't know, don't know, and don't know.
Last week the Trump team tried to get the election result thrown out altogether, again stressing mailed-in ballots as a primary source of fraud. A judge dismissed the suit last Saturday. The next day, Sunday, Trump's people filed an appeal with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. This could potentially go all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, in relation to a different lawsuit based on fine points of the Pennsylvania state constitution, a state court issued an injunction suspending certification of the election results pending a hearing today, Friday. Friday afternoon that hearing decided against the plaintiffs. Whether the Trump campaign will appeal, whether such an appeal might go all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, and whether Pennsylvania will now go ahead and complete certification, I don't know, don't know, and don't know. In Wisconsin they are still counting; actually re-counting two counties at the Trump team's insistence. Certification is due December 1st.
Meanwhile a group of Republican voters has filed a 39-page lawsuit to block certification, citing numerous irregularities. One that particularly caught my eye alleges that a nonprofit group funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife was used to dodge the state's absentee voting laws.
Just imagine: an upstanding citizen like Zuck involved in vote-diddling. Unthinkable!
That's a quick'n'dirty rundown as I go to tape here on Friday evening. As best I can judge, the odds on a huge 1876-style constitutional mess are small.
With three of Rudy's six battleground states already past certification, Arizona due to certify Monday and Wisconsin Tuesday, Pennsylvania apparently free to certify following today's ruling—but, as I said, I don't know the precise law there: perhaps they'll have to wait until appeals are exhausted—with all of that, for Trump's people to get any kind of favorable result is way harder than it was two weeks ago. To get a result that flips the Electoral College means actually annulling at least two state results.
It doesn't look good, and when you read about the latest legal moves—I've spent a lot of time reading about them—it's hard to avoid the impression that at this point the Trump lawyers are just going through the motions … no pun intended.
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04—Trump phones in. Pretty dry stuff, that. However, there are some sidebar stories to it all that got at least wan smiles from your genial host.
First sidebar story. GOP legislators from Pennsylvania, along with Rudy Giuliani and his people, held a public meeting at the Wyndham hotel in Gettysburg, Pa. to air complaints about voting fraud. President Trump had said he would attend in person, but he had to cancel when a campaign staffer tested positive for coronavirus.
He attended anyway, though—by phone. He dialed in and Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis held her cellphone up to a speaker's mike so the whole room could hear him.
The President spoke for eleven minutes. I won't give you all eleven here. You can find them on YouTube: Just put "Pennsylvania Senate Hearing" in the search box. I'll give you the first minute and the last minute.
First minute:
[Clip. Ellis: "Mister President, you are connected." (Audience applause and hollering.)
Trump: "Thank you very much. I've been watching the hearing on OANN and a couple of other great networks … But I really appreciate being asked to speak. And I'm in the Oval Office right now and it's very interesting to see what's going on.
"And this was an election we won easily. We won it by a lot. (Applause.) (Inaudible) … official was on this morning on a, er, important show and said that no way Trump didn't win Pennsylvania because the energy industry was all for him. Er, I saw, you know, with my eyes what happened, and he told me horror stories, absolute horror stories.
"So this was a, er, very sad to say it, this election was rigged and we can't let that happen. We can't let it happen for our country, and this election has to be turned around …"]
Last minute:
[Clip. Trump: "All we need is to have some judge listen to it properly, without having a political opinion or having another kind of a problem. Because we have everything … And by the way, the evidence is pouring in now as we speak.
"And I want to thank Rudy Giuliani for having the courage to do this … (applause) … because there are other lawyers that backed down because they were being screamed at. Rudy is the greatest Mayor in the history of New York, and there's a reason: He's got great courage. And he doesn't care, he wants to do what's right. And I told him the other day: 'Rudy, you were the greatest Mayor in the history of New York.'
"And you see what happened to New York without Rudy. He was the greatest Mayor. But this is more important. What you are doing now is far more important than being a great Mayor of the city of New York, and being its greatest Mayor by far—by the way, by far. This is going to be your crowning achievement, because you're saving our country.
"Thank you all very much—thank you!"
(Applause, cheers. Chants of "Trump, Trump, Trump, …")]
Listen to the reactions from the GOP foot-soldiers there. If the bid to change the election result fails, it won't be for lack of enthusiastic support from the troops.
Speaking of troops: Several of the media outlets reporting this event made a point of mentioning that the Wyndham hotel in Gettysburg, where it took place, is only a mile from the site of Pickett's Charge, the climax of the Battle of Gettysburg, which, if it had succeeded, could have made Robert E. Lee the battle's victor. It didn't succeed. Lee lost the battle and retired with his army back into Virginia.
Hence my wan smile.
One more sidebar story. I think I'd better give it a segment of its own.
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05—Cat fight over Georgia. OK, a second sidebar story. This one concerns the state of Georgia.
That state's 14th congressional district, up in the top left-hand corner of the state, glories in being (according to Wikipedia) the 10th most Republican district in the nation. Further quote from Wikipedia, quote:
Among Georgia's congressional districts, only the neighboring 9th district is more Republican. Since its creation, no Democrat has managed as much as 30 percent of the vote.
End quote.
In this recent election, Georgia's 14th was won by congressional newcomer Marjorie Taylor Greene. Representative-elect Greene won many hearts, including mine, back in June by posting an ad of herself cradling an AR-15 rifle while warning Antifa to, quote, "Stay the hell out of NW Georgia."
There are three other participants in this little sidebar drama. Two of them are rival candidates in one of those January 5th runoff elections for the U.S. Senate: Republican Kelly Loeffler, the current junior senator for the state, and Democrat Raphael Warnock, her challenger.
Warnock is a preacher—a black preacher of the Jeremiah Wright variety. Senator Loeffler's Republican campaign has dug up a video clip from a 2011 sermon he preached in which he says, quote:
America, nobody can serve God and the military. You can't serve God and money. You cannot serve God and Mammon at the same time. America, choose ye this day who you will serve.
End quote.
Now Georgia is a state with a lot of military installations and more than the average number of veterans, so finding that video clip was a bullseye for the GOP.
I promised you three other dramatis personæ in addition to Representative-elect Greene, the gal with the AR-15. Senator Loeffler and her challenger Pastor Warnock make two. Here's Number Three: Rep. Ilhan Omar from Minnesota's 5th district.
I'm sure Rep. Omar needs no introduction, but I'll give her one anyway. This is the lady whose mission in life is to convert the governmental system of the U.S.A. from the evil, racist, white-supremacist Anglo-Saxon model to something more … African.
Well, Rep. Omar had been defending Pastor Warnock, with whom she is of course in racial and partisan sympathy; so Kelly Loeffler—the preacher's GOP opponent: keep track here!—gave her a poke in the eye, tweeting that, tweet:
[Ilhan Omar] completely agrees with [Warnock's] disgraceful comments about our active service members, veterans, and their families.
End tweet.
That led to an indignant denial from Rep. Omar, and a couple of vituperative Loeffler-Omar exchanges followed.
One of the people following those exchanges was the gal I started out with, locked'n'loaded Representative-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene. Addressing Rep. Omar, the lady tweeted the following, tweet:
Back down, [Ilhan Omar].
You married your brother, so you're disqualified from running your mouth.
End tweet.
Snopes.com ranks the story about Congressgal Omar marrying her brother as, quote, "Unproven." She sure does hate people raising the issue, though, so you can file this under "Politics Ain't Beanbag."
In Georgia, with control of the U.S. Senate at stake, it really ain't. It ain't bikini-wrestling in a pit of Jell-O either, unfortunately; but this little spat was pretty close. Just let your imagination loose.
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06—The way we were. That's quite enough retail politics. If you don't mind, I'll take a break and tell a story—one with no connection whatever to anything in the news. It just came to mind somehow when I was saying the phrase "Mayor of the city of New York" back there.
This is a silly story, and it's about data: a silly data story. It's from my days as a mainframe programmer way back in the Paleolithic Era, when a computer with 96 kilobytes—kilo-bytes—of memory had a whole huge room to itself, with a mile of cable under the floor and a 50,000-dollar air-conditioning unit to keep it cool.
There were no monitors then—well, not in our shop—no search engines or online inquiry. The data went in on punched cards and came out on great stacks of green-line computer print-out paper.
I worked for a company with offices all over the U.S.A. and thousands of customers. One fixture in the office, with a cubby-hole all to itself, was a print-out of the customer file: all those thousands of customers in alphabetic order by name, printed on a stack of green-line paper a couple of feet high, kept on a spare desk in the cubby-hole. Occasionally we needed to go to it to look up a customer's number, or some detail of his account.
Now, we knew by word of mouth that one of our customers was the Mayor of New York City, at that time a quiet, inoffensive fellow named Abe Beame. He had just recently succeeded John Lindsay. Lindsay was the archetypal limousine liberal—somewhat like Bill De Blasio but with a three-digit IQ. Everyone had gotten fed up with him and Abe Beame was a great relief.
One day we needed to look up Abe Beame in that humongous print-out of the customer file. We opened it up at the Bs, but he wasn't there. Huh?
Someone suggested we try the As; perhaps he'd been filed under "Abe" by mistake. No hit. "Abraham"? Nope. We knew he was there but we couldn't find him.
We tried M for "Mayor," then N for "New York." No hit, no hit. C for "City"? Nope. O for "Office of the Mayor"? Na-uh. I swear someone even tried G for "Gotham."
Four or five programming grunts wasted half the morning—a full man-day—with that damn print-out. At last we divided it up and just went through it by eye until we found the Mayor. He was there under H for "His Honor the Mayor of New York."
True story. Ah, good times!
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07—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: President Trump has hinted he may issue an executive order banning birthright citizenship. Our own Washington Watcher here at VDARE.com gave full coverage to this on Tuesday.
It's nice that the President has finally gotten round to something he promised to do in 2016, and of course I'm whole-heartedly in favor. Birthright citizenship is a dumb idea, and it has spawned a nasty little industry of obstetric tourism—pregnant women coming here from abroad just so they can give birth to a U.S. citizen.
Still, it's hard to see the point at this stage. If Biden comes in he can just rescind the executive order. The kritarchs will let him do it; there'll be nothing like the indignant fuss and judicial obstruction there was when Trump tried to rescind Barack Obama's DACA deal.
Getting rid of birthright citizenship is a multi-year project. The President issues an executive order; it's challenged in the courts; it becomes a topic of public debate; you pass it off to Congress somehow for legislation; the legislation is challenged as unconstitutional; SCOTUS rules either for or against; if against, you have to somehow get a constitutional amendment going; …
As I said, a multi-year project. The pity is, Trump really did have those years—well, four years at least, the first two with his party in control of Congress. He did nothing. Now, at the last minute, this futile gesture. Eh, it's all so damn Trumpish.
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Item: The most depressing thing I read this week was an article posted Tuesday at RealClearInvestigations.com. Title: Post-George Floyd, a Wave of "Anti-Racist" Teaching Sweeps K-12 Schools Targeting "Whiteness".
Yes, schools all over—Kindergartens, elementaries, middle and high schools, including tony, expensive private schools—are re-writing their curriculums to make more room for Critical Race Theory.
Random sample from the article, quote:
In Maine, a coastal public school district where 3.7 percent of the 2,100 students are African American or Hispanic, the superintendent declared war on (inner quote) "the intentional barriers white people have built to harm Black people." (End inner quote.) The top administrator added: (inner quote) "We grieve for all of the Black lives taken by white supremacy." (End inner quote.)
End quote.
This is anti-whiteness, proud and unashamed. Kindergartens!
Fortunately there's some good news if you read far enough down the article. There's a backlash: Parents are forming organizations resisting the anti-white indoctrination. There's a worthy one called No Left Turn in Education that I recommend to your attention. It's a bit cautious and cucky by Dissident Right standards; but that's because people are scared of the Thought Police—scared to lose their Twitter accounts, their bank accounts, their jobs. That's what we have come to.
It's a good sign, though, that the worm is beginning to turn; that white Americans, even with jobs and reputations at risk, are not going to sit passively, meekly for ever listening to their ancestors, their civilization, their country be insulted and belittled.
That's me being optimistic. Hey, I do my best.
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Item: Across the pond in Shakespeare's island, the McDonald's fast-food chain is in a spot of bother.
This is on account of their having introduced, for the holiday season, something called the Jerk Chicken Sandwich. What is that? Well, we know what a sandwich is: What's Jerk Chicken? Quote from the very helpful news story at the Daily Mail website, quote:
Jerk is a seasoning for meat and fish which originated from Jamaica.
Jerk refers to a style of cooking in which the main ingredient—most often chicken but which can be other meats and fish—is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill.
The food has its origins with the Taino—the indigenous people of the Caribbean—who developed the jerk method and later taught it to African people who had been enslaved and forced over to the Caribbean. They in turn adapted it in creating jerk chicken.
End quote.
There of course is the problem: cultural appropriation, you see? And not merely the appropriation of any old culture, but of a culture that belonged to proud, noble indigenous people who were massacred and enslaved by evil leering white men. The British Isles are boiling with outrage against McDonald's for their brazen act of cultural appropriation.
Reading this news story, my own attention got snagged on that phrase "other meats and fish." What did "other meats" encompass for the indigenous Caribbeans? And for the black African slaves who were shipped over? Best not to inquire, perhaps.
And … Jerk Chicken Sandwich? The temptation is strong here, but I believe I can resist it. I will not, I will not, I will not. No, I absolutely will not. Be strong, Derb, be strong! No, I will not make any reference whatsoever to Jeffrey Toobin …
Ah, darn it, it slipped out. Sorry, listeners, sorry, really sorry …
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08—Signoff. That's this week's portion, ladies and gents. Thanks you for listening; and once again, this Thanksgiving weekend, double thanks for your loyalty, support, encouragement, criticisms, and suggestions.
I don't know any songs really apt to so much thanksgiving. Here's the best I can come up with: a Liverpool group from the 1960s. No, not the Beatles, although there's a family connection. This is The Scaffold singing their 1967 hit "Thank You Very Much."
I have to warn you that you'll be baffled by the first verse. They sing: "Thank you very much for the Aintree Iron." What the heck is that?
Aintree is a suburb of Liverpool, home to a major racetrack—horse-racing, that is. Okay: So what's the Aintree Iron?
Nobody knows—nobody except Mike McGear of The Scaffold, who wrote the lyrics. (And who, by the way, is the younger brother of Paul McCartney. That's the family connection I mentioned.) If you google "Aintree Iron" you'll find a quite astonishing number of possibilities, some of them radically weird. If Mike really knows which one is correct, he's been keeping shtum about it for 53 years.
That's just the first verse, though. The rest of the song makes more sense, even if you're not from Liverpool.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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[Music clip: The Scaffold, "Thank You Very Much."]


vdare--2020-11-27--Anti-Whiteness On The Attack In Public Schools, Even Kindergartens!

The most depressing thing I read this week was an article posted Tuesday by John Murawski at RealClearInvestigations.com .
Title : Post-George Floyd , a Wave of `` Anti-Racist '' Teaching Sweeps K-12 Schools Targeting `` Whiteness '' .
Yes , schools all over—Kindergartens , elementaries , middle and high schools , including tony , expensive private schools—are re-writing their curriculums to make more room for Critical Race Theory .
Random sample from the article , quote : This is anti-whiteness , proud and unashamed .
Kindergartens !
Fortunately there 's some good news if you read far enough down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Parents are forming organizations resisting the anti-white indoctrination .
There 's a worthy one called No Left Turn in Education that I recommend to your attention .
It 's a bit cautious and cucky by Dissident Right standards ; but that 's because people are scared of the Thought Police—scared to lose their Twitter accounts , their bank accounts , their jobs .
That 's what we have come to .
It 's a good sign , though , that the worm is beginning to turn ; that white Americans , even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are not going to sit passively , meekly for ever listening to their ancestors , their civilization , their country be insulted and belittled .
That 's me being optimistic .
Hey , I do my best .

The most depressing thing I read this week was an article posted Tuesday by John Murawski at RealClearInvestigations.com. Title: Post-George Floyd, a Wave of "Anti-Racist" Teaching Sweeps K-12 Schools Targeting "Whiteness".
Yes, schools all over—kindergartens, elementaries, middle and high schools, including tony, expensive private schools—are re-writing their curriculums to make more room for Critical Race Theory.
Random sample from the article, quote:
In Maine, a coastal public school district where 3.7 percent of the 2,100 students are African American or Hispanic, the superintendent declared war on "the intentional barriers white people have built to harm Black people." The top administrator added: "We grieve for all of the Black lives taken by white supremacy."
This is anti-whiteness, proud and unashamed. Kindergartens!
Fortunately there's some good news if you read far enough down the article. There's a backlash: parents are forming organizations resisting the anti-white indoctrination. There's a worthy one called No Left Turn in Education that I recommend to your attention.
It's a bit cautious and cucky by Dissident Right standards; but that's because people are scared of the Thought Police—scared to lose their Twitter accounts, their bank accounts, their jobs. That's what we have come to.
It's a good sign, though, that the worm is beginning to turn; that white Americans, even with jobs and reputations at risk, are not going to sit passively, meekly forever listening to their ancestors, their civilization, their country be insulted and belittled.
That's me being optimistic. Hey, I do my best.


vdare--2020-11-29--Karl Rove Is Back! And Just Might Lose Georgia For GOP If Senate Candidates Don’t Campaign Against B

Karl Rove Is Back! And Just Might Lose Georgia For GOP If Senate Candidates Don’t Campaign Against Biden’s Threatened Amnesty

The GOP is worried about the January 5 Georgia Senate runoffs .
As well it should be .
Losing will cost the party its U.S. Senate majority .
Yet Georgia ’ s Stupid Party hacks are doing little to mobilize the base vote , partly because Bush torpedo Karl Rove is helping run the show [ Karl Rove to helm massive GOP fundraising drive for Georgia runoffs , by Alex Isenstadt , Politico , November 16 , 2020 ] .
Trump is set to rally for Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler next Saturday .
But to win , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ home two messages : An illegal-alien Amnesty is coming if they lose both seats ; and Democrats are trying to steal them , just like they arguably robbed Trump of a second term .
Amnesty is the critical issue , but you wouldn ’ t notice it from the campaigns .
Of course , the two hard-Left Democrats , Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock , won ’ t discuss it .
But , amazingly , Perdue and Loeffler are ignoring it , too .
“ We are the firewall to socialism in America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mitch-McConnellese .
Though both support Trump ’ s election challenges and have called for the state ’ s quisling GOP Secretary of State to resign , they seem implicitly to accept Trump ’ s coming departure from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue [ In Georgia , Republicans juggle Biden win and Trump loyalties , by Bill Barrow , The Associated Press , November 26 , 2020 ] .So why not hammer on the Biden Amnesty to bring white a.k.a .
American voters to the polls ?
Amnesty is , after all , Biden ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days .
“ I made a commitment , in the first 100 days , I will send an immigration bill to the United States Senate with a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people in America , ” Biden told NBC News this week [ Immigration , executive action top Biden preview of first 100 days , by Morgan Chalfant , The Hill , November 24 , 2020 ] .
Biden ’ s neoliberal cabinet may not impose “ socialism ” on the country—or at least any more than we already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Historic American People , with Open Borders for Third World immigrants .
Apparently , Peach State pachyderms have forgotten that Trump won their party ’ s nomination in 2016—he crushed top-tier opponents Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in the primary—because he was the lone Republican to stand against Open Borders and , of course , Amnesty .
The same platform helped him defeat Hillary Clinton .
As president , while he has not passed immigration legislation , he aggressively enforced immigration laws and reduced immigration through executive orders , culminating in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to reverse everything .
This means the issue that animates his movement and defines Trumpism , immigration , should be the focus of the Georgia race .
But Perdue and Loeffler have been mostly mum .
Even worse , despite warning of the apocalypse if they lose the Senate , some Republican leaders seem eager to co-operate with Biden .
Former Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn and Sen. Lindsey Graham want to work with Biden on an immigration “ deal.
” Presumed immigration committee chairman Chuck Grassley wants a “ deal , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s “ pathway to citizenship ” [ Biden win revives immigration talk , by Jordain Carney , The Hill , November 17 , 2020 ] .
If the GOP wants a “ firewall to socialism , ” importing more socialist voters isn ’ t the way to build it .
Perdue and Loeffler themselves are relatively good on the issue .
Perdue distinguished himself in his first Senate campaign as an immigration patriot .
A career B+ from Numbers USA , he was one of three Republicans to sponsor the RAISE Act , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did push for guest-worker exemptions this year , but has not supported Amnesty .
Loeffler rates an A+ from Numbers USA and she supports a Border Wall , increased deportations , and serious immigration reform .
So why are they ignoring the issue in the campaign ?
The answer might be Rove , inexplicably put in charge of the state GOP ’ s fundraising , a lucrative plum that should have gone to a Trump ally .
A longtime immigration booster , Rove wanted George W. Bush to push for an Amnesty as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Incredibly , he claimed this Treason Lobby treachery would turn Hispanics into Republicans for generations to come , although in fact he was probably just serving the “ Slave Power.
” His zeal for the idea is undiminished .
Rove seeks a reset to Paul Ryanism , with a focus on perpetual war and catering to Big Business .
Immigration is not the only issue alienating the base .
The Georgia GOP Establishment appears eager to abandon Trump , and state party leaders don ’ t want to change dubious election practices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brian Kemp has rejected calls for a special legislative session to tighten residency requirements—because it would cost too much money , saying “ Any changes to Georgia 's election laws made in a special session will not have any impact on an ongoing election and would only result in endless litigation ” [ Georgia leaders reject calls for special session to change runoff voting rules , by Greg Bluestein , Atlanta Journal-Constitution , November 10 , 2020 ] .
The state board of elections has also extended absentee ballot boxes and other tricks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the runoffs [ Georgia Election Board Extends Rules Governing Drop Boxes , Early Ballot Processing , by Emil Moffatt , WABE , November 23 , 2020 ] .
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger , widely blamed for Georgia ’ s voting foul-ups , continues to attack Trump and his supporters for disputing the election results .
He has claimed that Trump suppressed his own turnout by warning of the dangers of mail-in ballots .
Raffensperger also calls the base a “ wild mob ” and demands that the GOP condemns ordinary Trump voters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Raffensperger : GOP Needs to Decry the Mob on Our Side , by Josh Feldman , Mediaite , November 29 , 2020 ] .
Really ?
Then what about this from conservative journalist Paul Sperry : Denouncing your own voters while insisting they show up to vote , then permitting your opponents to control the vote , isn ’ t exactly a brilliant turnout strategy .
And in fact the base isn ’ t taking this disrespect well .
Trump supporters on social media urge boycotting the Georgia runoffs .
“ THE ONLY @ @ @ @ @ @ @ # boycott the vote , ” read one viral Parler post [ Trump to Campaign for Georgia Senate Candidates as His Supporters Threaten Boycott , by Christina Zhao , Newsweek , November 26 , 2020 ] .
Activists within county parties are obviously weary of condescending national GOP leaders .
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel , a niece of Mitt Romney , was heckled over the weekend when she spoke at a Cobb County GOP meeting .
Attendees think their votes won ’ t count precisely because election officials have allowed Democrats to rig @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , although the state party has done nothing to correct one-sided election rules .
She also told her audience that the party ’ s main focus is electing Loeffler and Perdue .
When the audience members shouted “ Donald Trump , ” she said the party “ will focus on those other things later.
” This dismissive tone—big surprise !
—did not go over well with the audience .
Good thing is , Trump is planning to campaign in Georgia and has urged his supporters to not to boycott the runoff : Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as spoilers for Biden ’ s agenda might be rhetorically tricky if he hasn ’ t conceded .
On the other hand , in his unpredictable way he could force immigration into the race , compelling Loeffler and Perdue to campaign on it .
The situation in Georgia demonstrates the dismal state the GOP would be in without Trump .
Governor Kemp and Secretary of State Raffensperger are the faces of the problem .
Both ran as unabashed Trumpists in the 2018 election , with Kemp particularly touting his hardline stance on immigration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up criminal illegal aliens in his pick-up truck and deport them himself .
Since then , he ’ s done absolutely nothing .
Trump has said he ’ s now ashamed he endorsed the governor in 2018 .
That said , Trump should be a lot more “ ashamed ” if the party discards his nationalist legacy and hands an illegal-alien Amnesty to the Democrats .
Granted , a GOP Senate majority will likely block Amnesty .
For all his perfidy , McConnell does not want to pass bills that would bitterly divide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2024—Josh Hawley , Ted Cruz , Tom Cotton—can ’ t wait to stand as stalwarts against Amnesty .
We could even see cucks such as Marco Rubio—who drafted the Gang of Eight Amnesty—oppose it .
And opponent Grassley would be unlikely let it out of committee .
Trump could also use his megaphone to keep the party in line .
But disaster is ahead for the Historic American Nation if Democrats win both seats .
They could pass Biden ’ s Amnesty , or even one with no safeguards against future illegal immigration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GOP contenders lose , we can blame the brainiacs who thought abandoning the base in 2020 would be a good idea .
And if they win , we must credit the voters who ignored the Stupid Party leaders ’ idiotic strategery and stood tall for Trumpism .
Rove and his Ryanesque agenda are the past .
Trump and his issues are the future .
Hopefully , it will not take a loss finally to deliver that message .
Washington Watcher II [ Email him ] is an anonymous DC insider .

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Previously: Biden’s Immigration Arrogance May Cost Dems Vital Georgia Senate Seats
The GOP is worried about the January 5 Georgia Senate runoffs. As well it should be. Losing will cost the party its U.S. Senate majority. Yet Georgia’s Stupid Party hacks are doing little to mobilize the base vote, partly because Bush torpedo Karl Rove is helping run the show [Karl Rove to helm massive GOP fundraising drive for Georgia runoffs, by Alex Isenstadt, Politico, November 16, 2020]. Trump is set to rally for Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler next Saturday. But to win, the GOP should ignore pro-immigration Rove and pound home two messages: An illegal-alien Amnesty is coming if they lose both seats; and Democrats are trying to steal them, just like they arguably robbed Trump of a second term.
Amnesty is the critical issue, but you wouldn’t notice it from the campaigns. Of course, the two hard-Left Democrats, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, won’t discuss it. But, amazingly, Perdue and Loeffler are ignoring it, too. “We are the firewall to socialism in America,” Loeffler recently said in fluent Mitch-McConnellese. Though both support Trump’s election challenges and have called for the state’s quisling GOP Secretary of State to resign, they seem implicitly to accept Trump’s coming departure from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue [In Georgia, Republicans juggle Biden win and Trump loyalties, by Bill Barrow, The Associated Press, November 26, 2020].So why not hammer on the Biden Amnesty to bring white a.k.a. American voters to the polls?
Amnesty is, after all, Biden’s chief legislative item in his first 100 days. “I made a commitment, in the first 100 days, I will send an immigration bill to the United States Senate with a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people in America,” Biden told NBC News this week [Immigration, executive action top Biden preview of first 100 days, by Morgan Chalfant, The Hill, November 24, 2020].
Biden’s neoliberal cabinet may not impose “socialism” on the country—or at least any more than we already have— but it will try to dispossess the Historic American People, with Open Borders for Third World immigrants.
Apparently, Peach State pachyderms have forgotten that Trump won their party’s nomination in 2016—he crushed top-tier opponents Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in the primary—because he was the lone Republican to stand against Open Borders and, of course, Amnesty. The same platform helped him defeat Hillary Clinton. As president, while he has not passed immigration legislation, he aggressively enforced immigration laws and reduced immigration through executive orders, culminating in a temporary de facto moratorium. Biden vows to reverse everything. This means the issue that animates his movement and defines Trumpism, immigration, should be the focus of the Georgia race.
But Perdue and Loeffler have been mostly mum. Even worse, despite warning of the apocalypse if they lose the Senate, some Republican leaders seem eager to co-operate with Biden. Former Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn and Sen. Lindsey Graham want to work with Biden on an immigration “deal.” Presumed immigration committee chairman Chuck Grassley wants a “deal,” too, although he opposes Biden’s “pathway to citizenship” [Biden win revives immigration talk, by Jordain Carney, The Hill, November 17, 2020]. If the GOP wants a “firewall to socialism,” importing more socialist voters isn’t the way to build it.
Perdue and Loeffler themselves are relatively good on the issue. Perdue distinguished himself in his first Senate campaign as an immigration patriot. A career B+ from Numbers USA, he was one of three Republicans to sponsor the RAISE Act, which would halve legal immigration. He did push for guest-worker exemptions this year, but has not supported Amnesty.
Loeffler rates an A+ from Numbers USA and she supports a Border Wall, increased deportations, and serious immigration reform.
So why are they ignoring the issue in the campaign?
The answer might be Rove, inexplicably put in charge of the state GOP’s fundraising, a lucrative plum that should have gone to a Trump ally. A longtime immigration booster, Rove wanted George W. Bush to push for an Amnesty as soon as he entered the White House. Incredibly, he claimed this Treason Lobby treachery would turn Hispanics into Republicans for generations to come, although in fact he was probably just serving the “Slave Power.” His zeal for the idea is undiminished. Rove seeks a reset to Paul Ryanism, with a focus on perpetual war and catering to Big Business.
Immigration is not the only issue alienating the base. The Georgia GOP Establishment appears eager to abandon Trump, and state party leaders don’t want to change dubious election practices that favor Democrats. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has rejected calls for a special legislative session to tighten residency requirements—because it would cost too much money, saying “Any changes to Georgia's election laws made in a special session will not have any impact on an ongoing election and would only result in endless litigation” [Georgia leaders reject calls for special session to change runoff voting rules, by Greg Bluestein, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 10, 2020]. The state board of elections has also extended absentee ballot boxes and other tricks the Democrats exploited on November 3rd for the runoffs [Georgia Election Board Extends Rules Governing Drop Boxes, Early Ballot Processing, by Emil Moffatt, WABE, November 23, 2020].
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, widely blamed for Georgia’s voting foul-ups, continues to attack Trump and his supporters for disputing the election results. He has claimed that Trump suppressed his own turnout by warning of the dangers of mail-in ballots. Raffensperger also calls the base a “wild mob” and demands that the GOP condemns ordinary Trump voters for daring to criticize him [Brad Raffensperger: GOP Needs to Decry the Mob on Our Side, by Josh Feldman, Mediaite, November 29, 2020].
Really? Then what about this from conservative journalist Paul Sperry:
BREAKING: Capitulating to Stacey Abrams pressure groups, Georgia election officials have extended the use of fraud-prone absentee ballot "drop boxes" for Jan 5 Senate runoffs + early processing,prompting one county GOP official to warn: "We will lose both Senate seats in January" — Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) November 29, 2020
Denouncing your own voters while insisting they show up to vote, then permitting your opponents to control the vote, isn’t exactly a brilliant turnout strategy.
And in fact the base isn’t taking this disrespect well. Trump supporters on social media urge boycotting the Georgia runoffs. “THE ONLY WAY OUR VOICES GET HEARD IS by #boycott the vote,” read one viral Parler post [Trump to Campaign for Georgia Senate Candidates as His Supporters Threaten Boycott, by Christina Zhao, Newsweek, November 26, 2020].
Activists within county parties are obviously weary of condescending national GOP leaders. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, a niece of Mitt Romney, was heckled over the weekend when she spoke at a Cobb County GOP meeting.
An exasperated voter in Marietta asks RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, “Why should we trust this election when it’s already been decided?” McDaniel says, “It hasn’t been decided!” Another voter shouts out that Republican Governor Brian Kemp is corrupt. — DJ Judd (@DJJudd) November 28, 2020
Attendees think their votes won’t count precisely because election officials have allowed Democrats to rig the runoff.
McDaniel pooh-poohed that idea, although the state party has done nothing to correct one-sided election rules. She also told her audience that the party’s main focus is electing Loeffler and Perdue. When the audience members shouted “Donald Trump,” she said the party “will focus on those other things later.”
McDaniel says that she’s focused on electing Loeffler and Perdue in January, prompting a member of the audience to shout “and Donald Trump!”
“We’ve gotta focus on January 5th right now,” McDaniel says. “We can focus on those other things later.” A bunch of people start shouting — DJ Judd (@DJJudd) November 28, 2020
This dismissive tone—big surprise! —did not go over well with the audience.
Good thing is, Trump is planning to campaign in Georgia and has urged his supporters to not to boycott the runoff:
No, the 2020 Election was a total scam, we won by a lot (and will hopefully turn over the fraudulent result), but we must get out and help David and Kelly, two GREAT people. Otherwise we are playing right into the hands of some very sick people. I will be in Georgia on Saturday! https://t.co/1ziqFq9S6O — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2020
Trump’s pitch for Loeffler and Perdue as spoilers for Biden’s agenda might be rhetorically tricky if he hasn’t conceded. On the other hand, in his unpredictable way he could force immigration into the race, compelling Loeffler and Perdue to campaign on it.
The situation in Georgia demonstrates the dismal state the GOP would be in without Trump. Governor Kemp and Secretary of State Raffensperger are the faces of the problem. Both ran as unabashed Trumpists in the 2018 election, with Kemp particularly touting his hardline stance on immigration. The future governor vowed to pick up criminal illegal aliens in his pick-up truck and deport them himself. Since then, he’s done absolutely nothing. Trump has said he’s now ashamed he endorsed the governor in 2018.
"The governor's done nothing. He's done absolutely nothing. I'm ashamed that I endorsed him," President Trump says about Georgia's Brian Kemp. — Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 29, 2020
That said, Trump should be a lot more “ashamed” if the party discards his nationalist legacy and hands an illegal-alien Amnesty to the Democrats.
Granted, a GOP Senate majority will likely block Amnesty. For all his perfidy, McConnell does not want to pass bills that would bitterly divide his party. Many Republicans gazing at 2024—Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton—can’t wait to stand as stalwarts against Amnesty. We could even see cucks such as Marco Rubio—who drafted the Gang of Eight Amnesty—oppose it. And opponent Grassley would be unlikely let it out of committee.
Trump could also use his megaphone to keep the party in line.
But disaster is ahead for the Historic American Nation if Democrats win both seats. They could pass Biden’s Amnesty, or even one with no safeguards against future illegal immigration.
Political calculations aside, if the GOP contenders lose, we can blame the brainiacs who thought abandoning the base in 2020 would be a good idea. And if they win, we must credit the voters who ignored the Stupid Party leaders’ idiotic strategery and stood tall for Trumpism.
Rove and his Ryanesque agenda are the past. Trump and his issues are the future.
Hopefully, it will not take a loss finally to deliver that message.
Washington Watcher II [Email him] is an anonymous DC insider.


vdare--2020-11-29--Title IX, Disparate Impact, Women In Sports...And Useless Republicans

Earlier : One Not So Giant Kick For Womankind The Griggs decision by the Supreme Court in 1971 produced the `` disparate impact '' doctrine , holding that if blacks passed a test at a lower rate than whites , it was the test that was at fault .
Title IX of the Civil Rights act , passed in 1972 , has led to the assumption by courts , and thus necessarily by universities , that if women are less interested in sports than men , it must be men that are at fault .
As Steve Sailer notes below @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of men 's athletic teams at colleges around the country , is why a member of the Vanderbilt Women 's soccer team was asked to suit up as a placekicker in a non-historic event at a men 's football game .
Jessica Gavora 's 2002 book Tilting the Playing Field—Schools , Sports , Sex and Title IX , explains how we got here , recounting the 1996 case of Cohen vs. Brown .
( Amy Cohen , a female gymnast , vs. Brown University . )
What Amy Cohen 's attorneys did argue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ participated in sports at lower rates than men , and therefore were discriminated against .
At the time the lawsuit was filed , 51 percent of Brown students were women but `` only '' 38-39 percent of Brown athletes were women .
The university 's supposedly evenhanded demotion of two men 's teams along with women 's volleyball and gymnastics , Bryant and Labinger contended , was n't evenhanded at all .
It merely perpetuated a preexisting inequity .
One of the plaintiffs , former gymnast Eileen Rocchio , succinctly illustrated the obsession @ @ @ @ @ @ @ statement to USA Today : `` The athletes at Brown are 61 percent male .
It does n't take a rocket scientist , or a Brown degree , to see that 's not equal . ''
Brown would present reams of data attempting to show that women on campus participated in sports at a lower rate than men because they had a lower level of interest in athletics than men .
But Amy Cohen and the other plaintiffs would argue that such data were irrelevant .
They would make what they called a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the phrase coming from the 1989 movie in which Kevin Costner stars as a farmer-mystic haunted by dreams of baseball , a lost father and personal wholeness .
`` If you build it , they will come , '' voices tell Costner , instructing him to build a baseball diamond in his cornfield .
The university 's responsibility under Title IX , the Brown plaintiffs charged , was the same as Costner 's .
If they created the teams , hired the coaches and built the facilities , women would play .
Brown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , was not just to accommodate women who were interested in sports , but to cultivate athleticism in women who did n't yet know they were interested .
`` I 'm asked all the time whether the interests and abilities of women are met , '' said Donna Lopiano , executive director of the Women 's Sports Foundation and a star witness for the plaintiffs .
`` There 's never been a question of enough interest .
If you build it , they will come . ''
The duty of the universities and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not to fulfill demand , but to create it .
At stake in the case was not just Brown 's guilt or innocence under this standard , but the guilt or innocence of virtually every institution of higher learning in America .
For if Brown—with double the average number of women 's teams—was not in compliance with the law , then no school in the country was .
Tilting The Playing Field , p. 73 , Ch .
3 , If You Build It , They Will Come And that 's why this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ partly by litigation , partly by legislation , and partly by the enforcers of the federal Civil Rights bureaucracy .
Republicans have held the Presidency for 12 of the last 20 years , and frequently held both Houses of Congress , and have done nothing about this .

Earlier: One Not So Giant Kick For Womankind
The Griggs decision by the Supreme Court in 1971 produced the "disparate impact" doctrine, holding that if blacks passed a test at a lower rate than whites, it was the test that was at fault.
Title IX of the Civil Rights act, passed in 1972, has led to the assumption by courts, and thus necessarily by universities, that if women are less interested in sports than men, it must be men that are at fault. As Steve Sailer notes below, this, and the consequent destruction of men's athletic teams at colleges around the country, is why a member of the Vanderbilt Women's soccer team was asked to suit up as a placekicker in a non-historic event at a men's football game.
Jessica Gavora's 2002 book Tilting the Playing Field—Schools, Sports, Sex and Title IX, explains how we got here, recounting the 1996 case of Cohen vs. Brown. (Amy Cohen, a female gymnast, vs. Brown University.)
What Amy Cohen's attorneys did argue was the fact that women at Brown participated in sports at lower rates than men, and therefore were discriminated against. At the time the lawsuit was filed, 51 percent of Brown students were women but "only" 38-39 percent of Brown athletes were women. The university's supposedly evenhanded demotion of two men's teams along with women's volleyball and gymnastics, Bryant and Labinger contended, wasn't evenhanded at all. It merely perpetuated a preexisting inequity. One of the plaintiffs, former gymnast Eileen Rocchio, succinctly illustrated the obsession with numbers behind the case in a statement to USA Today: "The athletes at Brown are 61 percent male. It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or a Brown degree, to see that's not equal." Brown would present reams of data attempting to show that women on campus participated in sports at a lower rate than men because they had a lower level of interest in athletics than men. But Amy Cohen and the other plaintiffs would argue that such data were irrelevant. They would make what they called a "field of dreams" argument, the phrase coming from the 1989 movie in which Kevin Costner stars as a farmer-mystic haunted by dreams of baseball, a lost father and personal wholeness. "If you build it, they will come," voices tell Costner, instructing him to build a baseball diamond in his cornfield. The university's responsibility under Title IX, the Brown plaintiffs charged, was the same as Costner's. If they created the teams, hired the coaches and built the facilities, women would play. Brown's mandate under the law, then, was not just to accommodate women who were interested in sports, but to cultivate athleticism in women who didn't yet know they were interested. "I'm asked all the time whether the interests and abilities of women are met," said Donna Lopiano, executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation and a star witness for the plaintiffs. "There's never been a question of enough interest. If you build it, they will come." The duty of the universities and colleges of America, then, was not to fulfill demand, but to create it. At stake in the case was not just Brown's guilt or innocence under this standard, but the guilt or innocence of virtually every institution of higher learning in America. For if Brown—with double the average number of women's teams—was not in compliance with the law, then no school in the Country was. Tilting The Playing Field, p. 73, Ch. 3, "If You Build It, They Will Come"
And that's why this happened:
Remember that this is caused partly by litigation, partly by legislation, and partly by the enforcers of the federal Civil Rights bureaucracy. Republicans have held the Presidency for 12 of the last 20 years, and frequently held both Houses of Congress, and have done nothing about this.


vdare--2020-11-29--One Not So Giant Kick For Womankind

One Not So Giant Kick For Womankind

Vanderbilt was 0-7 going into today ’ s college football game against Missouri , and both their kickers were quarantined , so they did the publicity stunt of dressing the school ’ s women ’ s soccer team goalie as their placekicker .
This was hyped as the first time ever a woman had played in big time college football .
Here is her only action all day in the 0-41 loss : a kickoff that merely got to the 35 yard line .
( The standard for college football kickers is to be able to fly the ball at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ additional 35 yards , with considerable height to allow the defenders time to run down field . )
My guess is that if Vanderbilt had held an open audition , they would have found over 100 male undergrads who can kick off deeper than the best woman kicker on campus .
In their defense , lots of people had gone home over Thanksgiving , so they probably wouldn ’ t have gotten a big turnout .
But every single fraternity would have a half dozen members who can kick further , plus every @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s soccer team .
Incredible that a women 's soccer player was called up to the football team for kicking duties .
All it took was guts , determination , and federal legislation to destroy men 's sports teams in favor of women 's sports teams .
https : //t.co/MC2Sj7zDHy pic.twitter.com/WvfX9LTuGC — J. Reuben Clark ( @ JReubenCIark ) November 28 , 2020 Even so , colleges are full of guys who were pretty good players in high school on football or soccer teams but don ’ t pursue official sports in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ News in 2015 , the story of an open tryout to find a backup placekicker at the U. of Florida : 21-year-old Neil MacInnes is ‘ a senior studying to be a dental ceramist ’ at the University of Florida .
He ’ s now also the Gators ’ backup placekicker .
By Jerry Hinnen Oct 30 , 2015 at 3:22 pm ET Remember 11 days ago , when Florida held open tryouts among the student body for a backup placekicker ?
The Gators have their man — and he ’ s every @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expected from that kind of tryout .
Florida unveiled 21-year-old Neil MacInnes with a profile at the official Gators ’ site Friday , describing him as “ a senior studying to be a dental ceramist ” at the university … until he also became the No .
11 team in the country ’ s No .
2 placekicker .
MacInnes has traveled with the team to Jacksonville for this Saturday ’ s showdown with arch-rivals Georgia ( 3:30 p.m .
ET , CBS ) .
“ It ’ s pretty much a dream @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ I wanted to kick in high school and obviously being part of this organization , and Gator Nation , is kind of cool.
” MacInnes was one of 216 students to try out following Florida ’ s backup kicker Jorge Powell suffering a season-ending leg injury vs. LSU .
MacInnes kicked for Tampa ’ s Chamberlain High School during his junior and senior seasons , having already starred for the school ’ s track and soccer teams .
He appeared in a 2011 area all-star game at Tampa ’ s Raymond James @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 43-yarder — his most recent kicks in actual competition .
MacInnes , a 6-4 and 225 pound high school valedictorian , attempted 3 points after touchdown in his college career , missing the first and making the next two .
In the National Hockey League , the hometeam designates somebody , such as the Zamboni machine driver , who can suit up to play goalie in case both goalies on the home or visiting team get hurt .
He was the oldest rookie to make his debut in a North American major league @ @ @ @ @ @ @

Vanderbilt was 0-7 going into today’s college football game against Missouri, and both their kickers were quarantined, so they did the publicity stunt of dressing the school’s women’s soccer team goalie as their placekicker. This was hyped as the first time ever a woman had played in big time college football.
Here is her only action all day in the 0-41 loss: a kickoff that merely got to the 35 yard line. (The standard for college football kickers is to be able to fly the ball at least to the goal line, an additional 35 yards, with considerable height to allow the defenders time to run down field.)
My guess is that if Vanderbilt had held an open audition, they would have found over 100 male undergrads who can kick off deeper than the best woman kicker on campus. In their defense, lots of people had gone home over Thanksgiving, so they probably wouldn’t have gotten a big turnout. But every single fraternity would have a half dozen members who can kick further, plus every single guy on Vanderbilt’s men’s soccer team.
Oh, wait …
Incredible that a women's soccer player was called up to the football team for kicking duties.
All it took was guts, determination, and federal legislation to destroy men's sports teams in favor of women's sports teams. https://t.co/MC2Sj7zDHy pic.twitter.com/WvfX9LTuGC — J. Reuben Clark (@JReubenCIark) November 28, 2020
Even so, colleges are full of guys who were pretty good players in high school on football or soccer teams but don’t pursue official sports in college.
For example, from CBS News in 2015, the story of an open tryout to find a backup placekicker at the U. of Florida:
Florida names dental student backup kicker after open tryouts 21-year-old Neil MacInnes is ‘a senior studying to be a dental ceramist’ at the University of Florida. He’s now also the Gators’ backup placekicker. By Jerry Hinnen
Oct 30, 2015 at 3:22 pm ET Remember 11 days ago, when Florida held open tryouts among the student body for a backup placekicker? The Gators have their man — and he’s every bit the everyman you’d have expected from that kind of tryout. Florida unveiled 21-year-old Neil MacInnes with a profile at the official Gators’ site Friday, describing him as “a senior studying to be a dental ceramist” at the university … until he also became the No. 11 team in the country’s No. 2 placekicker. MacInnes has traveled with the team to Jacksonville for this Saturday’s showdown with arch-rivals Georgia (3:30 p.m. ET, CBS). “It’s pretty much a dream come true,” MacInnes said. “I wanted to kick in high school and obviously being part of this organization, and Gator Nation, is kind of cool.” MacInnes was one of 216 students to try out following Florida’s backup kicker Jorge Powell suffering a season-ending leg injury vs. LSU. MacInnes kicked for Tampa’s Chamberlain High School during his junior and senior seasons, having already starred for the school’s track and soccer teams. He appeared in a 2011 area all-star game at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium, hitting both a 48 and 43-yarder — his most recent kicks in actual competition.
MacInnes, a 6-4 and 225 pound high school valedictorian, attempted 3 points after touchdown in his college career, missing the first and making the next two.
In the National Hockey League, the home team designates somebody, such as the Zamboni machine driver, who can suit up to play goalie in case both goalies on the home or visiting team get hurt.
Carolina Hurricanes’ emergency backup goalie beats Toronto Maple Leafs Dave Ayres is a 42-year-old Zamboni driver and kidney-transplant recipient. He gets his first NHL win after Carolina’s two goalies leave the game hurt.
He was the oldest rookie to make his debut in a North American major league game since Satchel Paige in 1948.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-11-29--In Which Sports Can Women Compete With Men?

My theory has always been that what we think of as sports are basically tests of masculinity , so it ’ s not surprising that women seldom do well at them relative to men .
One sport where women might even be better than men is open water swimming .
For example , in Southern California ’ s Catalina Channel Swim of 33 kilometers across the Pacific to Catalina Island , women held the 3 fastest times ever .
Men and women compete in the Olympics in a few sports , such as equestrian ( where the horse supplies the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ equestrian events are becoming almost all Rich Girl-dominated , with close to 90 % of competitors lately being female .
Men and women competed against each other in shooting in the Olympics for a while , but have gone back to separate competitions .
A Chinese woman won a gold over men in one event in 1992 .
Undertakings in which women tend to be better than men tend not to be labeled as sports .
For example , competitive knitting is a thing , but it ’ s not often considered a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pretty big , if I can trust the delightful French period romantic comedy Populaire : But it seems like more guys are into it now in the computer age .

My theory has always been that what we think of as sports are basically tests of masculinity, so it’s not surprising that women seldom do well at them relative to men.
One sport where women might even be better than men is open water swimming. For example, in Southern California’s Catalina Channel Swim of 33 kilometers across the Pacific to Catalina Island, women held the 3 fastest times ever.
Men and women compete in the Olympics in a few sports, such as equestrian (where the horse supplies the horsepower). In the U.S., equestrian events are becoming almost all Rich Girl-dominated, with close to 90% of competitors lately being female.
Men and women competed against each other in shooting in the Olympics for a while, but have gone back to separate competitions. A Chinese woman won a gold over men in one event in 1992.
Undertakings in which women tend to be better than men tend not to be labeled as sports. For example, competitive knitting is a thing,
but it’s not often considered a sport.
Competitive typing used to be pretty big, if I can trust the delightful French period romantic comedy Populaire:
But it seems like more guys are into it now in the computer age.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-11-30--D.C. Cardinal Wilton Gregory Happy To Give Communion To Pro-Abortion Biden—Because He’s Opening The

D.C. Cardinal Wilton Gregory Happy To Give Communion To Pro-Abortion Biden—Because He’s Opening The Borders!

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If you want to know why the Catholic bishops will cheerlead “President-elect” Joe Biden for the next four years, listen to Washington, D.C.’s Wilton Gregory, the first black American cardinal [Wilton Gregory becomes the first Black American cardinal, CBS News, November 28, 2020]. Gregory says Catholic-In-Name-Only Biden’s full-throated support for abortion-on-demand is no reason to deny him holy communion [DC archbishop affirms he will give Holy Communion to pro-abortion Joe Biden, by Michael Haynes, Lifesite, November 24, 2020]. Gregory’s failure to uphold Canon 915, the Catholic law governing the reception of Holy Communion, is a symptom of his open Leftism, along with his fellow Bishops, which in turn explains why they back Biden’s suicidal plan to open the borders, legalize 11 million illegal aliens, and hasten The Great Replacement.
Before elaborating on the link between the bishops’ ignoring canon law and their leftism and immigration boosterism, it’s worth explaining why Gregory must deny Holy Communion to Biden, who thinks a “palmist” wrote the Psalms.
"Devout Catholic" Joe Biden doesn't know the "P" in "Psalmist" is silent, not the "s".pic.twitter.com/P4VAaYbJWT — LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) November 26, 2020
I’m not a canon lawyer. But I am a cradle Catholic, and an American patriot. You don’t need a Ph.D. from the Gregorian University to know when someone can’t receive communion.
Says Canon 915:
Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.
Last year, a faithful priest did deny Biden Holy Communion [Joe Biden was denied communion at Catholic church in South Carolina, by Eric Bradner, CNN, October 29, 2019]. But it’s the rare and courageous priest who does so.
Cardinal Gregory won’t, because he claims “we should be a church in dialogue, even with those with whom we have some serious disagreements,” Lifesite’s Haynes reported him saying:
“On my part, it’s a matter of the responsibility that I have as the archbishop to be engaged and to be in dialogue with him, even in those areas where we obviously have some differences.”
After a snow job like that, Biden might slip and break his other foot [Biden breaks foot while playing with dog, to wear a boot, by Alexandra Jaffe, The Associated Press, November 30, 2020].
As a retired priest friend told me: “Gregory commits mortal sin by taking the position he has taken, and again he or any priest of the Archdiocese of Washington violates Canon 915.”
And the bishops are no better, the priest said. They’ve given themselves permission to commit the same mortal sin. Here’s their website:
The question has been raised as to whether the denial of Holy Communion to some Catholics in political life is necessary because of their public support for abortion on demand. Given the wide range of circumstances involved in arriving at a prudential judgment on a matter of this seriousness, we recognize that such decisions rest with the individual bishop in accord with the established canonical and pastoral principles. Bishops can legitimately make different judgments on the most prudent course of pastoral action. [Catholics in Political Life, USCCB.org]
Gregory will not be corrected, certainly not by Pope Francis, who terribly confused the matter in a controversial apostolic exhortation [Amoris Laetitia].
In my view, the reason so many Bishops ignore Canon 915: They themselves are corrupt, and indeed might be violating the law themselves.
In 2006, Gregory was openly accused of being a homosexual … along with 34 of 44 other bishops [A Question That Won’t Go Away: Do Bishops Have A Sexual Orientation? by Richard Sipe, AWRSipe.com, August 1, 2006]. That was 77 percent of the men on the list.
Sipe isn’t popular among some good Catholics, but what if he’s right? What if he’s half right? And however many of those bishops have died or retired, Gregory is still with us. So are others.
Michael Voris, a former homosexual who publishes the orthodox Church Militant website, calls Gregory “The African Queen,” while a Catholic website that tracks perverts in the collar provides the long list of reasons to suspect Gregory is homosexual [Why Faithful Catholics Should Reject Wilton Gregory as Archbishop of Washington, D.C., by Peter, ComplicitClergy.com, March 30, 2019].
Now, consider what Gregory and the bishops do rage and obsess about:
Find out what a bishop does about Canon 915 and you’ll find out his politics. And, to some degree, vice versa.
In other words, the bishops will sing hosannas when Biden stops deportations, revs up asylum applications, lifts the ceiling on refugees, and sends Amnesty legislation to the Senate.
USCCB’s Justice for Immigrants website explains what the bishops want: more foreign workers, more “family reunification,” and “an opportunity for those who live in the U.S. as ‘unauthorized immigrants’ to transition to ‘legal immigrants’ if they can demonstrate good moral character and have built up equities in this country” [We Are Strangers No Longer].
The bishops cavil claim they oppose Open Borders. But that’s obvious nonsense. An Amnesty for 11 million illegals will send the message that the borders are open. And whatever they think Open Borders means, as a practical matter the bishops echo Slippin’ Joey [The Plan for Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants].
Yet official Catholic teaching is a far cry from what we hear from the bishops:
Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants’ duties toward their country of adoption [emphasis added]
[The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part 3]
The bishops’ website, apart from the Justice for Immigrants satellite, says this:
[N]o country is bound to accept all those who wish to resettle there. By this principle the Church recognizes that most immigration is ultimately not something to celebrate [emphasis added]. [Catholic Social Teaching on Immigration and the Movement of Peoples, USCCB.org]
Yet Justice for Immigrants features a “Migrants Monday” and denounced the Trump Administration’s plan to limit refugees to 15,000 annually [USCCB President and Migration Chairman Respond to Announcement of Lowest Refugee Designation in the History of U.S. Refugee Resettlement].
Then there’s Pope Francis. Two years ago, he wrote that nations must provide “humanitarian visas” and family reunification, along with visas for refugees from nearby wars.”
And no deportations, either:
Collective and arbitrary expulsions of migrants and refugees are not suitable solutions, particularly where people are returned to countries which cannot guarantee respect for human dignity and fundamental rights. [Message of his Holiness Pope Francis for the 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2018, Vatican.va
But of course an “expulsion” is not “arbitrary” if the “refugee” lied about why he jumped the border, as 90 percent of asylum applicants do [Migrant Protection Protocols, DHS.Gov, January 24, 2019.
Francis refused to bless or even meet with Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini because he cracked down on African illegal aliens. And only a man who is seriously confused could believe, let alone utter aloud, that a wall to stop uncontrolled illegal immigration is comparable to the Berlin Wall that trapped people in a Communist tyranny [Pope Francis Compares Trump’s Border Wall To Berlin Wall, by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, May 28, 2019].
Francis pontificates about “the common good” vis-à-vis WuFlu lockdowns. But then he and his bishops forget it when illegal aliens overrun borders and threaten “the good of the people” who are taxed to provide free food, education, and health care.
The pope congratulated Biden after the election and apparently discussed immigration with him [Pope and Biden discuss equality, climate change and immigration, by John Lavenburg, CruxNow.com, November 12, 2020]. Francis and Biden, like Gregory and Biden, are simpatico. Needless to say, Francis didn’t tell Biden to stay away from Holy Communion.
One lesson to learn from Gregory and the bishops’ open Leftism and refusal to follow canon law comes from St. Thomas Aquinas: Sexual vice perverts reason and darkens the intellect.
Here’s how dark: As VDARE.com wrote in 2016, Trump’s position on immigration is more Catholic than the Pope’s or the bishops’, who surely know that immigration promotes abortion because immigrants overwhelmingly vote for pro-abortion Democrats.
So what’s coming next?
Gregory will work closely with the first Catholic president since JFK, the media tell us, while the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will set up a special committee to do so [Will Gregory’s ‘dialogue’ with Biden undermine USCCB?, by Ed Condon, Catholic News Agency, November 25, 2020].
That means Biden’s mitred defense team will downplay his commitment to abortion. They’ll chatter about “dialogue.” Then they’ll say he’s a good Catholic for proposing Amnesty and “welcoming the stranger,” and a good American for embracing “our values as a nation of immigrants,” as Biden’s website puts it.
The upshot of it all: The Catholic bishops are part of the Treason Lobby that is fanatically determined to elect a new people.
If Biden takes the oath on January 20, they’ll have a co-religionist in the White House to make that wish come true.
Eugene Gant [email him] no longer lives in Baltimore.


vdare--2020-11-30--NYT: The Ghosts of Segregation

NYT: The Ghosts of Segregation

From the New York Times:
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation Vestiges of racism and oppression, from bricked-over segregated entrances to the forgotten sites of racial violence, still permeate much of America’s built environment. … Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market in Money, Miss., where, in 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was accused of whistling at a white woman. He was later kidnapped, tortured, lynched and dumped in the Tallahatchie River.
Ooh … spooky …
My impression is that the Woke are less and less treating talk of “the ghosts of segregation” and of malevolent “racist objects” as metaphorical and more as real: America is permeated by evil spirits, which can only be exorcised by giving the person complaining a well-paid job in the Diversity Inclusion Equity business.
In general, there is a dumbing down of America, which has been accelerated by elites declaring that African American tendencies (e.g., superstitiousness, fear of ghosts, etc.) are both beyond all criticism and worthy of emulation.