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Take a close look at those photos. They were taken Jan. 2, 2020, in the 2400 block of Elliott Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. These police surveillance photos show a 2016 white Chevrolet Impala, with the Kentucky tag 140 ZAT. Getting out of the car is convicted narcotics trafficker Jamarcus Glover. He is exiting the Impala in front of the so-called “trap house” where he and his associates were dealing drugs.

The owner of that car was Breonna Taylor.

The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department (LMPD) was investigating Glover’s drug ring, and had just installed a surveillance camera near the “trap house” when they got that photo of Taylor dropping off her boyfriend. Barely two months (71 days, to be exact) after that photo was taken, Taylor was shot by LMPD officers executing a search warrant on her apartment as part of their investigation of Glover.

Since her death, Breonna Taylor has been turned into a sort of secular saint by Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement activists who, with assistance from the national media and Democratic politicians, have made the police shooting of Taylor a worldwide cause célèbre. In the process of making her a martyred victim of “systemic racism,” BLM and their enablers have created a myth of heroic innocence around Breonna Taylor. Over and over, we have seen photos of her in an emergency medical technician (EMT) uniform used to illustrate news features about Taylor’s death, although she hadn’t been an EMT since 2016. Celebrities and politicians have repeated the false claim that Taylor was shot while she was “sleeping in her own bed”; in fact she was in the hallway of her apartment, next to her new boyfriend Kenneth Walker, when he shot an LMPD sergeant and Taylor was shot by the officers’ return fire.

The facts surrounding Breonna Taylor’s death are important because activists have tried to make the case a symbol of “systemic racism.” After a Louisville grand jury refused to indict two of the three officers who fired their weapons during that March 13 incident, protests erupted nationwide, and these protests quickly turned violent, with two police officers shot Wednesday night in Louisville. No less a public figure than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused LMPD of murder: “Justice was denied for Breonna Taylor and her family. Just think if it were your daughter, your sister, your cousin, your relative, your friend who was murdered by the police and the charging decision held no one accountable for her death.” Of course, Pelosi said nothing about the fact that police didn’t shoot until after Walker had already severely wounded Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly. More importantly, however, Pelosi’s account of this “murder” omitted any reference to Breonna Taylor’s relationship with the drug dealer whose criminal activity was the reason police were serving a search warrant on her apartment that night.

Jamarcus Glover (left); Breonna Taylor (right).

Two months ago, when most people outside Kentucky had still never heard of Breonna Taylor, I wrote an American Spectator column attempting to clear up many of the myths surrounding the case:

Racism did not kill Breonna Taylor. She did not die from prejudice or discrimination. Her death was not caused by Confederate monuments or statues of Christopher Columbus, nor could her death have been prevented by social-media hashtags. If you don’t know who Breonna Taylor was, the short version of the story is that the 26-year-old was shot to death March 13 by police in Louisville, Kentucky, during a drug raid. The long version of the story is rather more complicated, but Taylor’s death has been reduced to a slogan (“Justice for Breonna”) by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest movement. . . .
“Say Her Name” is one of the slogans that activists have connected to this Louisville shooting, but if we want to understand why police shot Breonna Taylor, there is another name that needs to be said — Jamarcus Glover. . . .

You can read the rest of that July 27 column, which apparently was ignored by most of the public figures — journalists, politicians and celebrities — who erupted in spasms of outrage this week over the alleged “injustice” of the Louisville grand jury’s decision. The rioting mobs and TV news anchors seem to be equally ignorant of facts about Breonna Taylor’s death which I was able to report two months ago, and it is frustrating to see such ignorance continue to prevail now, when we have still more information that contradicts the BLM myth.

A Police Leak and the ‘Probable Cause’ Factor

Last month, lengthy articles appeared in the Louisville Courier Journal, the New York Times and other publications revealing details of Breonna Taylor’s association with Jamarcus Glover, including quotes from jailhouse recordings. The source of these details was a 39-page confidential report leaked by someone inside LMPD who was involved in the investigation of Glover’s drug ring. However, while quoting extensively from this report, none of these news outlets published the LMPD report itself. The only place I’ve been able to find this report in its entirety is at The Tatum Report, the website of former Tucson Police Officer Brandon Tatum. Because of bandwidth limits, a direct link to the report might cause a temporary crash, so here is the landing page and I encourage anyone who’s interested in seeing the full report to go there.

Why is this information important? Because, contrary to what was previously reported (what her family’s lawyer told the media) Breonna Taylor’s association with Marcus Glover did not end two years ago. Nor was her relationship with this convicted felon so casual that she could have been unaware of his criminal activities. In fact, LMPD detectives were entirely justified in suspecting Taylor as an accomplice in Glover’s drug ring. Evidence pointing to her involvement went beyond the information included in the police affidavit seeking a search warrant for Taylor’s apartment. The “probable cause” for that warrant was abundant.

Say hello to Quenton Se’ville “Q-Tip” Hall. In 2012, Hall was convicted of several felonies, including narcotics trafficking and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and sentenced to six years in prison. He served only about half of that sentence, however, and by 2016 had returned to the streets of Louisville. It was because of Quenton that police first became aware of Breonna Taylor’s connection to Jamarcus Glover.

About 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, LMPD officers were called to the scene of a shooting on South 25th Street. Behind the wheel of a silver sedan, police found Fernandez Bowman, 27, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Bowman had been driving when he was shot multiple times:

His car struck a telephone pole and a fence before coming to rest against a house. . . .
Including Bowman’s death, there are now 112 criminal homicide investigations by Louisville Metro Police in 2016 and 118 in Jefferson County, according to a Courier-Journal count. The toll marks a level of deadly violence not seen in Jefferson County in more than five decades.

Violent crime was increasing in Louisville, and Fernandez Bowman was one of its victims, but he didn’t own the car he died in. LMPD homicide detectives “learned that the vehicle . . . had been rented by Breonna Taylor with an address of 3003 Springfield Drive #4, Louisville, KY 40214.” How did this dead man end up in a car Taylor had rented? Early the next morning, detectives went to Taylor’s apartment:

“Upon contact with Ms. Taylor, Detectivces observed a male in the apartment with her, identified as Jamarcus Glover (DOB: 04/05/1990). Ms. Taylor stated that she did not know the victim and that she found out what had possibly happened from her boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover. Ms. Taylor stated that she had been dating Jamarcus Glover for approximately 3-4 months and allowed him to drive her rental car.”

But if Jamarcus was in her apartment on the morning of Dec. 3, how was it that Bowman had been driving this car that Taylor had rented on Dec. 1? The LMPD report says: “It is important to note that the homicide victim is the brother of Demarius Bowman, which is one of Jamarcus Glover’s associates and has been arrested with Jamarcus Glover numerous times.” So, Breonna Taylor rents a car, which she “allowed” her drug dealer boyfriend to drive, and somehow this car ends up being driven by the brother of one of Glover’s criminal associates, who gets shot to death. Two months later, LMPD arrested Quenton Hall and charged him with murdering Fernandez Bowman.

The scene where Fernandez Bowman was murdered in 2016.

What is the common-sense inference here? Doesn’t it seem likely that Jamarcus Glover needed a “clean” vehicle — a car that couldn’t be traced to him — for some drug-related enterprise? Isn’t it reasonable to suspect that Fernandez Bowman was doing some kind of deal involving Quenton Hall, and that this deal was what led to Bowman’s murder?

Well, that’s just speculation, but we know the facts about Quenton Hall’s arrest two months after Bowman’s murder:

A convicted felon wanted for an early-December murder in the Algonquin neighborhood was arrested [Jan. 31, 2017] after he fled a traffic stop and struck a police car, officials said.
Quenton Hall, 34, of Louisville, who also goes by “Q” or “Tip,” is accused of killing 27-year-old Fernandez Bowman on Dec. 2 near Algonquin Park. His arrest was announced Wednesday morning in a Louisville Metro Police in a Facebook post.
At about 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, officers stopped Hall’s white 2011 Dodge in the 4700 block of Dixie Highway because he’s “known to carry firearms and wanted for a fresh homicide,” according to an arrest citation. Hall attempted to flee and struck a police car.
Once the car came to a stop, officers found marijuana and pills in his pockets, the citation said. They searched his car and found large amounts of methamphetamine and heroin in the center console, and a loaded 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun in the driver’s seat.
Hall was arrested at about 6:45 p.m. Tuesday and charged with murder, first-degree wanton endangerment, first-degree fleeing or evading police, first-degree trafficking in methamphetamine, first-degree trafficking in heroin, first-degree possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, possession of a handgun by a convicted felon and failure to or improper signal.

We have reason to believe that Quenton Hall will spend the rest of his life in prison, and he was subsequently charged with a 2004 “cold case” murder. But the relevance of his case to Breonna Taylor is that Hall was a violent drug dealer, busted with “large amounts of methamphetamine and heroin” and a pistol two months after Fernandez Bowman was killed while driving a car that Taylor rented and “allowed” her drug-dealer boyfriend to drive. If something like this had happened to you — if your boyfriend got you mixed up in a homicide case — wouldn’t you consider that maybe you should find yourself a new boyfriend?

Yet here we see that not only did Breonna Taylor not break up with Jamarcus Glover when this December 2016 murder happened, but that she was still involved with him more than three years later, just before the March 13 police raid in which she died. People are rioting — shooting cops and throwing molotov cocktails — because of BLM anti-police rhetoric about “systemic racism” of which Breonna Taylor was allegedly a victim. Any effort to push back against this rhetoric is drowned out by angry denunciations — you are “blaming the victim” and “justifying murder” if you point to the evidence of Breonna Taylor’s complicity in Jamarcus Glover’s drug-dealing career. But how can anyone ignore this? It is the “probable cause” that resulted in the search warrant for the raid that led to her death. Police believed Taylor could be holding drugs or money for Glover, and they had clear reasons for believing this. As a matter of fact, in a jailhouse phone call after Taylor’s death, Glover said Taylor had been holding $14,000 for him.

LMPD didn’t find that money at Breonna Taylor’s apartment, but did I mention that, not long after she was seen in the 2013 Impala dropping off Glover at the “trap house,” Breonna got a new car? It was a black Dodge Charger, and it was also seen by LMPD surveillance.

TO BE CONTINUED . . .

(Support for this report is funded by reader contributions to the Shoe Leather Fund. Thanks to everyone who has contributed.)

Category: Crime, Kentucky

I’ll Take ‘Things Not to Say to a Jersey Cop While You’re Holding a Knife’ for $400

Posted on | September 26, 2020 | 1 Comment

What is “I’m gonna stab him”?

Excuse me if I took some time off from writing my long Breonna Taylor post — which I promise I will finish — in order to watch some more police bodycam videos. This one is from Asbury Park, N.J., where police responded to a domestic violence call Aug. 21. They found a woman outside, and went inside the apartment where they encountered Hasani Best, 39, who was armed with a knife and barricaded himself in a bedroom. For about 45 minutes, cops tried to negotiate Best’s surrender. The guy in charge was Sgt. Sean DeShader, a black man who in 2016 was named the department’s “Officer of the Year.”

In the bodycam video released this week, you hear Best ranting profanely and even telling the cops to shoot him. DeShader tries to defuse the situation, joking and laughing. This was obviously not the first time police had been called to deal with Best. In the 911 call that summoned police, a neighbor says “the couple was known for fighting physically,” and that the woman was screaming for help.

Early in the standoff, police used a taser, but it was ineffective. Over and over, DeShader tells Best: “Put the knife down and come on out.”

In the final moment, Best opens the door halfway, knife in hand, and gestures toward an officer standing to the left of Sgt. DeShader.

“I’m gonna stab him.”

One second later, DeShader fires twice.

A lot of people who have viewed this video are critical of Sgt. DeShader’s decision to fire. Best did not visibly lunge toward the officers before he was shot, but on the other hand, this encounter was happening at close range. The cops were in a hallway, with no more than five or six feet between themselves and the bedroom door. If Sgt. DeShader had waited a half-second longer, who knows what might have happened?

But a point I’ve made before: How many times does a cop have to tell you to drop the knife? What part of “drop the knife” is so difficult to understand? If a cop was pointing a gun at me, I guarantee you he wouldn’t have to tell me twice. But after repeated warnings, Best then made an explicit threat: “I’m gonna stab him.”

He chose . . . poorly.

Category: Crime, New Jersey

In The Mailbox: 09.25.20

Posted on | September 26, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Anti-Catholic Bigotry In The Media
Red Pilled Jew: Quick Take – Biden’s Past & A Hypothesis On TDS
EBL: Texas Reloaded – Don’t Mess With Texas
Twitchy: 1619 Project Author Tries Punishing Atlantic Journo Who Called Out Her Gaslighting, Steps Into Minefield
Louder With Crowder: Dan Crenshaw Drops Action-Adventure Trailer That’s Easily The Best Campaign Ad Ever
Vox Popoli: Building Nihilists, also, Razorfist Joins UATV
According To Hoyt: NEKULTURNY
Stoic Observations: The Great Indoors – Adventures In Pandemicland

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American Conservative: Erdogan Channels Ottomans To Announce Imperial Dreams
American Greatness: Hunter Biden’s Millions, also, U.S. Attorney To Investigate Discarded Military Ballots In Pennsylvania
American Thinker: The Shocking Full Extent Of Big Tech’s Censorship Of Conservatives
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Socialist Takeover Friday
Babalu Blog: How The Legal Fight To Save Elian Gonzalez Shaped The Career Of Barbara Lagoa
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For September 25
Cafe Hayek: Your Sovereignty & Trade
Da Tech Guy: Two SCOTUS Constitutional Amendments The GOP Should Introduce Right Now, also, Ginsburg’s Favor
Don Surber: Never Trump, Never Right, also, Trump Supporters Are Having All The Fun
First Street Journal: Before The Internet, People Could Get Away With Running Their Mouths
The Geller Report: Man Finds Thousands Of Unopened Ballots In CA Dumpster, also, Florida Reopens Everything
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Hidin’ Biden’s Sidekick
JustOneMinute: What’s The Rush?
The Lid: The Democrats Fought Against A Peaceful Transfer Of Power In 2016
Legal Insurrection: Trump Expands Ban On Federal Funding Of “Critical Race Theory”, also, It’s Amy Coney Barret For SCOTUS (Reportedly)
The PanAm Post: Cuban Doctors Report Castro Regime’s Medical Slavery To The UN
Power Line: Americans Losing Patience With Riots, also, Ginsburg’s Alleged “Blind Spot”
Shark Tank: Mucarsel-Powell Exposed Again As Progressive By Obama Endorsement
Shot In The Dark: DIY Part 2
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – Increasing Life Expectancy & The Supreme Court
The Political Hat: “Justice” Is Just An Excuse For Riot & Revolution, also, The Gnostic Mysteries Of Wokeness
This Ain’t Hell: How The Marine Commandant Is Reshaping The Corps Without Increasing The Budget. also, Valor Friday
Victory Girls: Crossfire Hurricane Team Knew Steele Dossier Was Bogus
Volokh Conspiracy: On The Eve Of Yom Kippur, NYC Considers “Extraordinary Lockdown” Of Orthodox Jewish Communities
Weasel Zippers: Ron Paul Hospitalized After Apparent Stroke, also, Spotify Employees Threaten Strike If Joe Rogan Not Censored
The Federalist: Tucker Carlson Names The Rich CEOs Funding Supplies & Bail For Louisville Rioters, also, FBI Whistleblower On Mueller Team Details Real Reason Flynn Was Targeted
Mark Steyn: Of Princes & Priuses

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Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes

Posted on | September 25, 2020 | 3 Comments

Did you know that Breonna Taylor’s father was a drug dealer? He’s serving life in prison because he murdered a guy over drugs. Did you know that Breonna Taylor twice posted bond for her drug dealer boyfriend Jamarcus Glover? Did you know that police surveillance shows Breonna dropping off Jamarcus at the “trap house” where he dealt drugs? Somebody ought to ask the Mostly Peaceful™ Protesters exactly how much they know about the case, because the more you actually know about Breonna, the less she looks like a candidate for sainthood, which is what the Black Lives Matter movement wants you to think of her.

Stupid people keep messing up their own lives — getting killed or committing crimes that will put them in prison — because they got involved in these Mostly Peaceful™ Protests without having any real knowledge of the cases they were protesting about.

Graphic: A BLM protester in Los Angeles who shut down the road with a large mob got hit by a truck. pic.twitter.com/tqF14CN4WP

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) September 25, 2020

MOMENTS AGO: Prius drives through a protest in Hollywood, protestors then chase the vehicle down, smash the windows with a skateboard while attempting to pull the driver out of the car. The driver then speeds away and is pulled over by LAPD and handcuffed. @NBCLA @elianamoreno pic.twitter.com/OZuU1r8QoG

— Kenny Holmes (@KHOLMESlive) September 25, 2020

Please explain to me how your “social justice” concerns about a shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, requires you to engage in a protest blocking the streets in Hollywood, California:

On the evening of September 24, 2020, approximately 7:00 p.m., a group of more than 300 protesters marched through Hollywood. While there were isolated reports of vandalism, the group was largely peaceful. The group eventually made its way onto Sunset Boulevard.
Shortly after 9:00 p.m., a blue pick-up truck traveling on Sunset Boulevard maneuvered through the crowd and became involved in an altercation. As the driver of the pick-up truck attempted to get away from the situation, he struck a protester standing in the street. That individual was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.
Moments later, a white Prius attempted to drive around that same protest and also became involved in an altercation with individuals in the crowd. A black pick-up truck leading the protests accelerated and pinned that white Prius in, forcing it to come to a stop. The driver of the Prius attempted to flee the area and reversed into a green mustang behind it. That vehicle was also participating in the protest.
Both the drivers of the pick-up truck and the green Mustang attempted to extract the driver of the Prius from his vehicle. However, that driver was able to get away from the scene.
Several blocks away, that motorist was detained by Hollywood officers. There were no injuries associated with that second incident.
All of the drivers and victims involved in both altercations have been identified by Hollywood Officers and the investigation is on-going.

That’s a press release from the Los Angeles Police Department, and isn’t it rather ironic how these anti-police protesters expect cops to arrest somebody when a protester gets run over? How is it that the same criminal justice system you accuse of “systemic racism” whenever a black suspect gets shot is suddenly OK when you need some protection?

Speaker Pelosi: "Justice was denied for Breonna Taylor and her family. Just think if it were your daughter, your sister, your cousin, your relative, your friend who was murdered by the police and the charging decision held no one accountable for her death." pic.twitter.com/ZpyC5tWBHN

— The Hill (@thehill) September 24, 2020

How was “justice denied,” Madame Speaker? The city of Louisville is paying out $12 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. But as to your question, if my daughter was associating with a criminal scumbag like Jamarcus Taylor? Well, lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

Whatever happened to common sense? Back in the day when I was running around with dopehead hoodlums, nobody would have said a word about “social justice” if I’d found myself on the wrong end of a gun. Believe it or not, cops still shoot plenty of white criminals, but you never hear about those cases because nobody riots — the media doesn’t notice and no politicians pay attention — when white people get killed.

Q. Why did the rioter cross the road?
A. Who gives a fuck? Run over the Commie scumbag.

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 25, 2020

UPDATE: Because there has been so much misinformation — and just outright ignorance — about this case, I have decided to write a long summary called “The Truth About Breonna Taylor.” This is going to take several hours, and I might not have it finished until Saturday morning, but somebody needs to tell this story right, and it might as well be me.

If readers want to help support this work, I’ll ask you to remember that The Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

UPDATE II: “The Truth About Breonna Taylor, Part 1: Separating BLM’s Myth From Reality.” Apologies that this is taking longer than I’d expected. There’s an awful lot of truth to tell.

Category: Crime

Election Fraud Already Underway?

Posted on | September 25, 2020 | 3 Comments

You would like to think that things like this could never happen. Then you remember who Democrats are, and of course it’s happening:

Mail-in ballots from the military serving overseas were found in the trash in Pennsylvania. The ballots were discovered during an investigation into election issues in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. They were all votes for President Trump.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office Middle District of Pennsylvania released a statement on the situation on Thursday:

On Monday, September 21, 2020, at the request of Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis, the Office of the United States Attorney along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Scranton Resident Office, began an inquiry into reports of potential issues with a small number of mail-in ballots at the Luzerne County Board of Elections.
Since Monday, FBI personnel working together with the Pennsylvania State Police have conducted numerous interviews and recovered and reviewed certain physical evidence. Election officials in Luzerne County have been cooperative. At this point we can confirm that a small number of military ballots were discarded. Investigators have recovered nine ballots at this time. Some of those ballots can be attributed to specific voters and some cannot. All nine ballots were cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump.

While nine ballots have been recovered, it is not clear how many were actually discarded.
This announcement comes on the heels of a report that three trays of mail, including absentee ballots, were discovered in a ditch in Wisconsin.

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.) Tampering with the U.S. Mail is a federal crime. Somebody’s going to federal prison for this — unless Joe Biden wins, in which case the whole thing will be made to disappear.

Category: Crime, Election

In The Mailbox: 09.24.20

Posted on | September 25, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
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EBL: Senate Report Finds Hunter Biden Is Corrupt AF
Twitchy: Woman Mortally Terrified After Seeing Trump Yard Signs At Airbnb Rental
Louder With Crowder: Antifa Assaulted A Seattle Cop, And They Don’t Want You To Know
Vox Popoli: Homeschool Or Divorce? also, Preparing To Fight The Demon State

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Adam Piggott: Cardboard Guardians
American Conservative: A Mencken For Catholics
American Greatness: Stacks Of Absentee Ballots Found In Wisconsin Ditch
American Thinker: Trump Should Make A Recess Appointment To SCOTUS
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Manly Accessories News
Babalu Blog: Hundreds Of Cuban Doctors Accuse Castro Regime Of Slavery
BattleSwarm: Hunter Biden Has Been A Very, Very Bad Boy
Cafe Hayek: That’s Not How It Works
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Five One-Liners Under Other Peoples’ Fedoras, also, Thanks To Corona-chan, The U.S. Has Become A Police State, And Far Too Many Are OK With That
Don Surber: No Energy Biden Campaign Worries Democrats, also, Democrats Broke The Rules, Then Blamed Trump
The Geller Report: U.S. Attorney – Military Ballots Cast For Trump Found Discarded In PA, also, Biden Campaign Mailing Out Pre-Filled Ballots
Hogewash: Sonification, also, A Simplified Method Of Counting Mail-In Ballots
Hollywood In Toto: Klavan – Late Night Comics “Provably Wrong”, Then Colbert Makes His Point For Him
The Lid: Durham Adds Clinton Foundation, Unfinished Huber Queries To Russiagate Investigation
Legal Insurrection: Trump Greeted With Boos, Heckling As He Pays His Respects To Justice Ginsburg, also, Democrats Fear Senator Feinstein Not Up For SCOTUS Battle At 87
The PanAm Post: Almagro – Absurd To Think That Ciminals Against Humanity Organize Elections
Power Line: Law Enforcement Priorities, also, Justice But No Peace
Shark Tank: FL Democrat Staff At Odds With Biden Over Defunding Police
Shot In The Dark: The New York Times’ Memory Hole
STUMP: COVID Roundup – The Case Of The Mysterious Missing Mortality, & More
The Political Hat: The Latest Tool Of White Supremacy – Miscegenation, also, The Not-So-Free State Of George Floyd
This Ain’t Hell: Retired Green Beret’s Widow Sues VA For Harassment, Slander Over Life Insurance Payouts, also, Military Ballots Discarded, Investigation Ongoing
Victory Girls: Louisville – Injury, Mayhem, & Lies
Volokh Conspiracy: Libertarian Party Candidate Jorgensen Releases “Liberty-Minded” SCOTUS Short List
Weasel Zippers: FBI Investigating After Trump Ballots Discarded In PA, also, Antifa Rioter Attempts To Murder Seattle Policeman By Skulling Him With Metal Bat
The Federalist: Explosive FBI Texts Detail Internal Furor Over Handling Of “Crossfire Hurricane”, also, Why #BLM Only Empowers Racist White Leftists
Mark Steyn: It’s Surprisingly Easy Out Here For A Pimp

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Sleepy Joe’s Sundown Campaign

Posted on | September 24, 2020 | Comments Off on Sleepy Joe’s Sundown Campaign

I should be careful not to praise Michael Brendan Dougherty too much. He’s probably as close to a full-blown paleoconservative as they allow to write for National Review these days. Twice (in 2007 and again in 2017), Dougherty wrote about the late Sam Francis in ways that could be described as laudatory, and you don’t get more paleo than Sam. So if Dougherty is secretly reading VDare or American Renaissance, I wouldn’t want to “out” him as part of the Shadowy Far-Right Cabal. Next thing you know, there’d be an “exposé” by Oliver Darcy or Lachlan Markay and then Dougherty would be hate-listed by the SPLC.

Dougherty is very smart, however, so he’s probably covered his tracks well enough that even my praising him won’t lead to any career-shatttering scandal. and he’s got this nice piece today about how Joe Biden’s campaign is nearly non-existent:

[T]he distress signals are coming from the New York Times now. It’s not exactly about his health, but about the tortoise-like pace and manner of the campaign. In those pages, Mark Leibovich compared the Biden campaign to pandemic-era NFL games: “quiet, eerie and almost entirely fan-free.”
Leibovich gives ample space to the Biden campaign’s rationalization: The minimal event schedule is a sign that Joe Biden cares about his supporters, whereas we’re to suppose Trump rallies are nihilistic festivals of death, in which the MAGA-freaks aspirate and palpate each other in the hopes of joining Herman Cain in the Trump Taj Mahal in the skies.
But then Leibovich adds this:

Still, Mr. Biden’s minimal footprint on the ground tends to stoke anxiety among Democrats that their vehicle for defeating the president has a deficit in effort and enthusiasm, especially compared with an opponent whose big-splash approach (boat flotillas, fully resumed campaign events) is anything but reluctant.

By the tentative prose standards of the New York Times, this is a Civil Defense Siren blaring through a bonfire sending smoke signals, “S.O.S.” With polls tightening in Arizona and Florida you can feel nerves starting to jangle.
If Biden blows it, the basement-campaign strategy will look like an obvious culprit in his defeat. Usually, a party tries to avoid making the same mistakes that recent losing campaigns made. But Biden’s operation seems to be leaning into dangers that should be obvious.

First of all, does anyone believe the polls? I mean, when Dougherty describes “polls tightening in Arizona and Florida,” I figure both those states must be solidly for Trump. If there is even a hint of doubt from the Biden campaign about any state, I count it as solid “red.”

Maybe I’m overconfident, but what’s the alternative? To actually believe that Biden is leading in North Carolina? That even Georgia and Texas might be “in play”? That’s either (a) complete and utter bullshit, or (b) proof that the American constitutional republic is irreversibly doomed. If Biden is even close in Texas, all hope of the future is lost. So my hunch is that the truth is (b) and the polls are all bullshit.

Ace of Spades has a good summary of the polls-are-bullshit evidence. One of the things you have to do, when evaluating a poll, is to look past the topline number and get into the results of demographic subgroups — white, black, Hispanic, etc. How do those smaller subsets compare to anything observable in the real world? Ace points to a recent national poll that showed Biden leading by 5 points but which showed a Dem/GOP skew of 12.5% in the sample, whereas 2016 had only a 4% skew. So basically, this poll has an 8.5% oversample of Democrats. If you take that into consideration, you might guess that Biden is actually trailing by 3 points nationally, which would not be surprising in the least. Biden is actually a weaker candidate than Hillary was, even if his negatives aren’t as high as hers were. When you see egregious misrepresentations like that in one poll, you realize that other polls showing similar topline results must be similarly skewed. Meanwhile, Ace finds support for his theory “that Biden’s events are suspiciously small and unpublicized to make it very easy for him to cancel them if his brain is having a not-so-fresh feeling,” quoting Charles C.W. Cooke:

As of late, Biden’s team has regularly put a “lid” on his day by noon — or even earlier. And, when it does not, the events that Biden attends seem to have been designed to be either easily cancelable or easily replaceable. Were President Trump to cancel a rally, he would be unable to hide it. This is not true of the events on Biden’s schedule . . .
Those with suspicious minds have started to wonder if there is something wrong with Biden. Perhaps he is unable to work every day? Perhaps his schedule needs to be set up in such a way as it can be amended without notice?

So, according to this theory, Biden has his good days and his bad days, like any patient in the downhill slide into senile dementia. Because there are some days where Biden is completely out of it — a blank-eyed zombie — his campaign can’t schedule in advance the kind of major public events that presidential candidates usually do. Instead, they schedule micro-events that can be canceled or rescheduled at short notice.

Tonight, Trump spoke at a gigantic rally in Jacksonville, Florida, while Joe Biden was still stuck in his Delaware basement, eating a warm bowl of stew and trying to remember what he ate for breakfast.

Category: Joe Biden

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