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Trump Has Utterly Broken Their Minds

Posted on | October 10, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

The headline and subhead of Olivia Nuzzi’s latest column:

The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event
Down in the polls, high on steroids, and clinging
to good health while endangering everyone else’s.

We see here how the propaganda message of the Joe Biden campaign — “Coronavirus will kill us all! Blame Trump! Wear a mask! Vote Democrat!” — is translated into a media narrative. Journalists strain themselves not merely to repeat this message, but to amplify it to the deafening roar of a jet airline takeoff. The most over-the-top rhetoric is permissible as “reporting” in service of this narrative.

This relates to something Charlie Hurt pointed out this week:

Current polls show Joseph R. Biden anywhere from 10 to 20 points ahead of President Trump — a double-digit blowout.
The whole election will come down to Mr. Trump’s handling of the global pandemic, which extensive polling shows is where Mr. Trump is most vulnerable.
In 2016, Mr. Trump barely won the election — and only because so many voters assumed he had no chance of winning and stayed home. Also: Russia!
This year, Americans are exhausted. They might not particularly like Mr. Biden, but they desperately want a break from the current occupant of the White House.
In short, we are three weeks away from an election that the president has no hope of winning. Every indicator suggests Mr. Trump will lose in a landslide.
So, I have a very simple question. If all this is true and Democrats have the election so deep in the bag, why are they so terrified?
Why, if this is such a done deal, are Democrats so desperate right now?

It doesn’t add up. If the media really had confidence in the polls that show Biden heading for a landslide, they would not be turning the knobs of their anti-Trump amplifiers all the way up to 11. The shrieking hyperbole — “He’s high on steroids! He’s a menace to public health!” — suggests that the Democrat-Media Complex fear a repeat of that night in the Javitz Center, when they watched their dreams of Madame President turn to ashes as the “Blue Wall” collapsed under a populist tsunami.

Honestly, I have no idea how the election will turn out, but I take great satisfaction in knowing Democrats have surrendered to panic.




 

Category: Election, Media Bias

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved

Posted on | October 10, 2020 | 4 Comments

 

Nearly 70 years ago, a young alumnus of Yale University published a critical examination of his alma mater. God and Man at Yale set off a firestorm of controversy and made its author, William F. Buckley Jr., an intellectual celebrity. Buckley’s argument was that Yale, supposedly governed by a board of trustees and responsible to the alumni whose contributions funded the institution, was teaching ideas which the alumni almost certainly did not approve. Founded as a Christian institution, Yale employed professors who openly mocked Christianity, and its courses on economics and political science showed a distinct tendency toward socialism and collectivism. Buckley’s critique was met with a fierce reaction from liberals, and Yale did nothing to reverse its leftward drift, with the result that by the late 1960s, its campus was taken over by student radicals who supported Communist victory in Vietnam and who demanded release of the “New Haven Nine” (Black Panthers accused of torturing to death a suspected informer named Alex Rackley).

Since then, of course, Yale has become a disreputable abyss of “postmodern” nonsense. The professors are notorious perverts and Yale’s administration is a corrupt gang of academic swindlers, with a student body selected on the basis of illegal racial quotas:

Black applicants to Yale University are up to eight times more likely to be admitted than Asian applicants with the same level of academic skill, a disparity that the Department of Justice says violates federal law.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, the DOJ alleged that Yale was in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination by institutions that receive federal funds. In its 32-page complaint, the department documents Yale’s use of race as a factor at every step of its admissions process and details statistical evidence that students of similar academic skill but different racial groups face wildly divergent admissions chances.
The suit follows DOJ’s official request that Yale cease its use of race as an admissions factor, itself the result of a multi-year investigation into Yale’s admissions practices. Although the two institutions negotiated extensively since that request was made in August, a DOJ official told the Washington Free Beacon, Yale has refused to alter its admissions process, necessitating legal action. . . .
For at least the past two decades, DOJ argues, Yale has consistently ensured that its freshman class is between roughly 6 and 8 percent black, an illegal “racial balancing.” Salovey claimed that over the same period the racial composition of admitted applicants “fluctuated significantly for all groups” but did not address the concerns about black students specifically.
Data on the 2017 and 2018 applicant pools, released by Yale to DOJ, show bigger signs of discrimination. In those classes, about 6.4 percent of white and Asian applicants were admitted, compared with 8.3 percent of Hispanic and 9.5 percent of black applicants. But those numbers mask gaping disparities that become apparent when comparing applicants’ academic achievement, as measured by an “academic index” in use across the Ivy League. . . .
Black applicants above the second decile of academic skill are consistently five to eight times more likely to be admitted compared with their Asian counterparts; Hispanic applicants are two to four times more likely to be admitted.
These disparities, DOJ argues, are driven by Yale’s use of race at every step of the admissions process. According to the complaint, application readers are encouraged to use race as an explicit factor in grading the quality of an applicant; Yale also regularly “bops” white and Asian applicants, replacing them with black or Hispanic applicants to maintain the class’s racial composition.

It is self-evident that Yale has implemented a racial quota system, justified by a rationale of “diversity” that deserves critical scrutiny. This is one of those situations where the “motte and bailey” fallacy is employed by liberals to defend the indefensible. Most people have no objection (and indeed, are likely to support) “diversity” as a general goal. This is the non-controversial “motte” of the argument, and having gained our assent to this, liberals will then deny that “diversity” is being implemented through discriminatory quotas (the “bailey”).

Given the documented disparity in admission rates for students with similar scholastic records — black students being at least five times more likely than Asians to be offered admission — and given also the fact that the number of black students admitted to Yale has hovered suspiciously in the same percentage range for two decades, we cannot deny the reality that “diversity” at Yale is synonymous with discriminatory quotas.

Most people disapprove of racial discrimination, and when you show clear and convincing evidence that “diversity” requires discrimination — that is to say, the “motte” and the “bailey” are inseparable — you force the liberal into a crisis of cognitive dissonance. The result? The liberal points an accusatory finger and shrieks: “RAAAAACIST!”

Now do you see why the Yale curriculum is all postmodern nonsense? Only by resort to the works of Derrida, Foucault, et al., is it possible to believe that the opponents of discrimination are guilty of racism.

Liberalism ultimately destroys everything it touches, because liberalism has no real principles beyond a devotion to a handful of vague slogans — “Equality,” “Progress,” “Democracy,” “Science,” et cetera.

Once upon a time — by no coincidence, the exact time that Buckley published God and Man at Yale — liberals expressed enthusiastic devotion to “Tolerance” and “Academic Freedom.” You see, Buckley wrote his book during the onset of the Cold War, at a time when Americans were increasingly alarmed by Communist subversion and espionage. Buckley’s book did not dwell on this topic, but his liberal critics could read between the lines and perceive the threat to what Buckley called the “superstition” of Academic Freedom. There were, to my knowledge, no Yale professors at that time with a history of association with the Communist Party, but the same was not true at other universities. Liberals were quick to detect in the pages of God and Man at Yale a threat to “Tolerance” of Communism in academia.

You see that the situation has now made a 180-degree reversal, so that Yale and other elite universities now advocate intolerance of any criticism of certain ideas. It is impermissible at Yale to question the “Science” behind climate-change hysteria, and so also the “Science” of Third Wave gender theory is off-limits to criticism at Yale. Certainly, any Trump supporter is persona non grata at Yale, and any student who dared to speak out against the regime of “diversity” quotas would probably be tarred, feathered and run out of New Haven on a rail.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit, Yale Law ’82, summa cum laude.)

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! Reminder that you can find my columns at The American Spectator, including my most recent, “Are Americans Tired of Being Called ‘Racist’ Yet?”




 

Category: The Ivy League Is Depraved and Decadent

In The Mailbox: 10.09.20

Posted on | October 10, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This has been a big week for birthdays here at The Other McCain – Stacy on Monday, Smitty on Wednesday, and me bringing up the rear today. I’m still settling into my new apartment in Tonopah, and if you want to send me something by way of a birthday/housewarming present, my Amazon Wish List is here, or you can throw money at the Paypal link below to help keep me in bratwurst & Diet Coke, or you can just click the Amazon links at the end of the post to buy stuff you were going to buy anyway, and I’ll get a piece of the action. As usual, deadlines for the FMJRA and Rule Five Sunday approach at noon and midnight tomorrow respectively, plus I’ll have the annual tribute to the Admiral of the Ocean Sea rolled up with a book post on Monday. Enjoy the weekend! Enjoy this pic of Brynhild in honor of Leif Ericsson Day!

My favorite non-bomber Valkyrie.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Too Much
EBL: Steve Scully Busted For Being Biased For Biden
Twitchy: Bob Dole Drops The Hammer On “Bipartisan” Commission For Presidential Debates
Louder With Crowder: Biden/Harris Campaign Can’t Get Their Lies Straight About Green New Deal
Vox Popoli: It’s Not The Left That Hates Tolkien, also, A Portrait In Missing The Point
According To Hoyt: This Is No Time To Get Wobbly
Monster Hunter Nation: October Update Post
Gab News: 95% Of Silicon Valley Donations Have Gone To Biden

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: An Academic Responds To His Cancellers
American Greatness: One Step Closer To Despotism?
American Thinker: Presidential Opinion Polls – Deja Vu All Over Again?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Right To Commerce Friday
Babalu Blog: On This Day In History – Mass Murdering Communist Psycho Che Guevara Executed In Bolivia
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For October 9
Cafe Hayek: There’s No Substitute For Market Competition
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Some Interesting Drudge Questions, also, DaTechGuy Off DaRadio
Don Surber: Trump Supporters Flip Tech Censorship
First Street Journal: Perhaps Tom Wolf Can Send Her The Tip On Which She Was Stiffed
The Geller Report: MEDIA LIES – Whitmer Kidnap Plotters Are Anarchists Who Hate Trump & Police, also,  60,000 Mail-In Ballots Go Missing In Westmoreland County, Virginia
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Reasonable Hypothesis
Hollywood In Toto: A Day In The Life Of A Conservative Entertainment Reporter, also, Allen’s A Rainy Day In New York Wasn’t Worth The Wait
The Lid: Ohio’s Largest County Mails 50,000 Incorrect Ballots
Legal Insurrection: Keith Olbermann Wants To Defeat “Terrorist Trump”, Convict & Remove Supporters From Society, also, Hispanic Pro-Trump Student Senator Faces Impeachment For Criticism Of Illegal Immigration
Power Line: Georgia H Walks Away, also, What Our Children Learn In School
Shark Tank: Texas Rep Escobar Accuses Trump Of Ordering Whitmer’s Kidnapping; Allen West Responds To “Deranged & Delusional” Escobar
Shot In The Dark: Our Ruling Class And Alternate History
STUMP: COVID Roundup
The Political Hat: The Superficial Dating Transphobia Lie
This Ain’t Hell: PFC Oliver Jeffers Comes Home After 76 Years Missing In The German Forest, also, Army Achieves New Laser Breakthrough
Victory Girls: Yelp To Flag Businesses Accused Of Racism
Volokh Conspiracy: Couple Barred From Fostering 1-Year-Old Great-Granddaughter Because They Oppose Homosexuality & Gender Transitioning
Weasel Zippers: Harris Tells NYT Reporter She’s “Absolutely Open” To Court Packing, also, Leading Contender In Portland Mayor Race Calls Antifa “Peaceful Response To Rise Of White Nationalism”
The Federalist: “White Supremacist” Suspect In MI Kidnap Plot Is Actually Trump-Hating Anarchist, also, I Didn’t Vote For Trump In 2016, But I’d Crawl Over Broken Glass To Vote For Him Now
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet, also, The Uses Of Lockdown

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VIDEO: Cop-Hating Anarchist in Michigan Calls Trump a ‘Tyrant’

Posted on | October 9, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Say hello to Brandon Caserta, one of the “right-wing extremists” charged with a conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer:

A new video of one of the 13 men arrested and charged in an alleged kidnapping plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer shows the suspect is a Trump-hating anarchist despite media claims the plot was hatched by pro-Trump white supremacists.
“You know Trump is not your friend, dude,” said Brandon Caserta, with a large anarchist flag hanging on his wall behind him. “And it amazes me that people actually, like, believe that. When he’s shown over and over and over again that he’s a tyrant. Every single person that works for government is your enemy, dude.”
In another video from Caserta, the anarchist asserted, “[police] are oppressing you for a paycheck.” “If you’re still supporting law enforcement… you are supporting the people who are enforcing slavery on everyone else.”
Documentary producer Robby Starbuck, who discovered Caserta’s videos, blasted the integrity of the corporate media, writing on Twitter: “Why did it take me to pull all these videos to give people access to the truth about the ideology these guys have? It says a lot about the state of journalism that a director/producer had to dig these clips up because we all know we can’t trust mainstream news to do their job.”

Note well the gauged earlobes, the multiple crude tattoos, the heavy metal T-shirts and general “edgy” hipster/punk vibe with this guy.

His Instagram handle was @xenoccult and he probably identifies as Pagan. Bet you money he has, or once had, a reptile collection — boa constrictor and/or iguana — and likes to smoke weed. His hobbies, other than anarchism and guns, include comic books and sci-fi/fantasy movies.

What I’m saying is, Brandon Caserta is a definite type.

If you know many working-class white Millenials, you are familiar with the Brandon Caserta type, the autodidact Philosopher King, who got his education from paperback books, YouTube and Reddit. They’re a dime a dozen, this type, but few of them ever escalate to violence.

Notice that nobody in the mainstream Right is defending these guys. There is no right-wing equivalent of BLM to organize hashtag campaigns or street protests when white criminals get busted. Republicans aren’t toppling statues or torching police cars over Brandon Caserta’s arrest.

The Left will turn violent terrorists like Angela Davis into cult heroes, but the Right is about law and order, peace and prosperity.




 

Category: Crime, Michigan, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 10.08.20

Posted on | October 9, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.08.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Wednesday Whittle
357 Magnum: The Greatest American Hero Of WW1
EBL: New Debate Rules – Biden Stays In The Basement
Twitchy: Reality Checks Trip Up Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Attempt To Tie Trump To Thwarted Whitmer Kidnap Plot
Louder With Crowder: Idiot Actor Mark Ruffalo Accuses VP Pence Of “White Male Supremacy” For Debating Kamala Harris
Vox Popoli: Bye, Gamma, also, World War P Continues

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Coming Conservative Counterrevolution?
American Greatness: Trump Refuses To Do Virtual Town Hall – “They’re Trying To Protect Biden”
American Power: Viral Ocean Spray “Dreams” Star Nathan Apodaca
American Thinker: When Fear Rules, also, The Left’s “Mostly Peaceful” Revolution/Coup
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Court Packing News
Babalu Blog: The Failures Of Socialism Offer Lessons To Latin America – Will They Learn?
BattleSwarm: King Abbott Deems Some Of His Subjects May Be Allowed To Quaff A Flagon Of Ale…
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Not Our War, Not Our Problem, also, Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Governments Cannot Eliminate Risk Without Eliminating Freedom
Don Surber: 56% Say We Are Better Off Now Than Four Years Ago, also, Andrea Mitchell Redefines Stupid
First Street Journal: Andy Beshear’s Toothless Order
The Geller Report: Joe Biden is The Subject Of Federal Criminal Investigations Into His Role In Spygate And Activities In Ukraine, also, Catholic League Decries Gov. Cuomo’s “Tyrannical Edict” Targeting Jews
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, My Take On The VP Debate
Hollywood In Toto: Kerry Washington Claims Blacks Seduced By Conservatism To Oppose Gay Marriage, also, Why Bill Murray Makes On The Rocks Tolerable
JustOneMinute: Who Won & Who Cares?
The Lid: 2020 VP Debate – Lies, Headshakes, & An Arrogant Smirk
Legal Insurrection: Biden – “Voters Will Know My Opinion On Court Packing When The Election’s Over”, also,  Dishonest Kamala Lied About Abe Lincoln
Power Line: It’s Easier Being A Bin Laden Than A Conservative, also,  Turn This Page
Shark Tank: Loomer Disgusted Over Rehiring Of Holocaust-Denying Principal
Shot In The Dark: “Mitch, What Does Urban Progressive Privilege Look Like?”
The Political Hat: Systemic Madness
This Ain’t Hell: California Trucking School Owner Jailed For His Part In $4.1 Million GI Bill Scam, also, Mitigating The Red China Threat
Victory Girls: Whitmer, Tlaib Blame Trump For Thwarted Kidnap Plot
Volokh Conspiracy: Understanding Gov. Cuomo’s Antisemitism
Weasel Zippers: MI “Republican Militia” Planned To Kidnap Gov. Whitmer, But Organizer’s Facebook Videos Tell A Different Story, also,  Rioters In Wauwatosa Attacked Homes, Cars, &
The Federalist: FBI Is Stonewalling Congressional Oversight On Hunter Biden, also, Poorly Catechized Catholics Complain About Amy Coney Barrett’s Authentic Catholicism
Mark Steyn: MAGAdittoes!

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Category: Linkagery

An Important Anniversary

Posted on | October 8, 2020 | 3 Comments

On this date — Oct. 8 — four years ago, in wake of the Access Hollywood tape release (“grab ’em by the p***y”), I pronounced this an “unrecoverable error.” The election was effectively over, and there was no way that Donald Trump could be elected president.

Never have I been so confident of any prediction, and never have I been so happy to be proven wrong. Just when you think all is lost, in other words, you have to realize there is always hope.

This is important to remember, at a time when the Real Clear Politics average of national polls show Joe Biden nearly 10 points ahead. This engenders feeling of utter hopelessness — are Americans really stupid enough to elect that doddering old fraud? — but I think back to how certain I was four years ago that Trump would lose, and I feel better.




 

Category: Election, Polls

The Idiot Caucus Weighs In

Posted on | October 8, 2020 | Comments Off on The Idiot Caucus Weighs In

 

Say hello to Adam Fox, who was busted by the feds as part of a terrorist conspiracy.  Is that the face of an intelligent constitutional scholar? Does this man look like an argument for racial superiority? The dude was homeless, living in the basement of a vacuum cleaner shop.

Terrorism is bad. How many different ways do I need to say this? It’s like telling kids, “Hey, stay away from heroin. It’s addictive.” But the members of the Idiot Caucus never seem to learn:

Agents foiled a stunning plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, authorities said Thursday in announcing charges in an alleged scheme that involved months of planning and even rehearsals to snatch Whitmer at her vacation home.
Six men were charged in federal court, while seven others accused of trying to target police and the state Capitol were charged in state court.
“All of us in Michigan can disagree about politics, but those disagreements should never, ever amount to violence. Violence has been prevented today,” Detroit U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider told reporters.
The six men charged in federal court plotted for months, consulting and training with members of a group that federal authorities described as a militia, and undertaking rehearsals in August and September, according to an FBI affidavit.
Four planned to meet Wednesday to “make a payment on explosives and exchange tactical gear,” the FBI said in the court filing.
The FBI quoted one of the accused as saying Whitmer “has no checks and balances at all. She has uncontrolled power right now. All good things must come to an end.”
The six men charged in federal court were arrested Wednesday night and face up to life in prison if convicted. They were due in court Thursday. Andrew Birge, the U.S. attorney in western Michigan, called them “violent extremists.”
Whitmer has been praised but also deeply criticized for the state’s response to the coronavirus. She put major restrictions on personal movement throughout the state and on the economy, although many of those limits have been lifted. The Michigan Supreme Court last week said a 1945 law used as the foundation for many of the governor’s orders is unconstitutional.
The government said the plot against Whitmer was stopped with the work of undercover agents and informants.
Through electronic communications, two of the alleged conspirators “agreed to unite others in their cause and take violent action against multiple state governments that they believe are violating the U.S. Constitution,” the FBI said.
The criminal complaint identified the six as Adam Fox, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, Brandon Caserta, all of Michigan, and Barry Croft of Delaware.
Fox said he needed 200 men to storm the Capitol building in Lansing and take hostages, including the governor, according to the FBI. He said he wanted to try Whitmer for “treason” and would execute the plan before the Nov. 3 election, the government said. The group later shifted to targeting the governor’s vacation home, the FBI said.
The government said the scheme appeared to have roots in a June gathering in Dublin, Ohio, attended by more than a dozen people from several states, including Croft and Fox.
“The group talked about creating a society that followed the U.S. Bill of Rights and where they could be self-sufficient,” the FBI affidavit said. “They discussed different ways of achieving this goal from peaceful endeavors to violent actions. … Several members talked about murdering ‘tyrants’ or ‘taking’ a sitting governor.”

In case any idiots are reading this — taking a break from your “dark web” fantasies of revolution, perhaps — let me explain something that you don’t seem to understand: Not everyone who says he’s your friend is your friend. Guarantee you that this little “cell” was penetrated by undercover FBI men, or else that one of their buddies got busted and became an informant. There is no such thing as a terrorist conspiracy that is not subject to infiltration, especially “right-wing extremists” like this Michigan crew. For decades, the FBI has developed tactics to deal with this kind of threat, so that whenever you see such a “right-wing” attack actually happen, it’s almost always a “lone wolf.”

Any attempt to organize a violent right-wing group larger than two or three people will almost certainly be detected by federal agents. Alas, there is never any shortage of idiots in the world.

Why have I never been a “white supremacist”? Because the kind of white people involved in that stuff are always so inferior.




 

Category: Crime, Michigan, Terrorism

Pence Trounces Harris in VP Debate; Commission Wants ‘Virtual’ Debate Next?

Posted on | October 8, 2020 | Comments Off on Pence Trounces Harris in VP Debate; Commission Wants ‘Virtual’ Debate Next?

 

The highlight in Wednesday’s debate, of course, was when a fly landed on Vice President Mike Pence’s head. I had turned the sound down low on my office TV, because I was working on an American Spectator column on a different topic, but I’d occasionally check the Twitter reactions and glance over at the TV, where the closed-caption conveyed the words. So about two-thirds of the way into the event, I looked and saw a dark spot on Pence’s snowy-white hair. “What is that? A fly?”

So it was, and it stayed there about two minutes, during which Pence didn’t even notice it. The man has no flinch reflex. Cool as a cucumber, and he utterly dismantled Kamala:

Mike Pence dominated in that debate. He was calm and cool. Rock-solid. Kamala Harris’s body language and voice reflected her nervousness—a stark contrast to her previous debate performances during the Democratic primary when she was still in the race. But neither her body language, her failure to answer questions, nor her constant reliance on fake stories as lines of attack were the key tell that she lost.
The liberal media conceded Pence’s victory by describing Pence’s debate performance. And their go-to explanation was to attack the vice president by accusing him of “mansplaining.”
“Pence’s mansplaining, interrupting, condescending and general smarminess is at an 11 tonight,” tweeted faux conservative S.E. Cupp of CNN. “No wonder suburban women have left the Republican Party in droves.” . . .
It is demeaning to women everywhere (not just in politics) when every time a man debates a woman he is inevitably accused of “mansplaining.” It sends the message that women aren’t up to the task of debating with men. And to her credit, ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz disagreed with Stephanopoulos’s assertion that Pence was “mansplaining.”
“When I hear people … talk about mansplaining and talk about these things with Kamala Harris and [say], ‘A man shouldn’t interrupt her and it’s going to look bad,’ Kamala Harris is a vice-presidential candidate. She should be able to stand up for herself,” Raddatz said. “Yes, it’s history-making. Yes, you can talk about her history and who she is and she’s a woman of color there, but a man can interrupt another vice presidential candidate. It is up to that candidate to talk back, to interrupt themselves, or to hold on to that debate in any way they could.”
And the bottom line is that had Kamala Harris won the debate the liberal media wouldn’t be jumping in and accusing Mike Pence of “mansplaining.”

Now, perhaps not coincidentally, Team Biden wants to change the game:

Citing health concerns, the Commission on Presidential Debates on Thursday said that the second debate between President Trump and Joe Biden would be a virtual one, with the candidates in “separate remote locations.” President Trump quickly announced that he was out.
“I heard that the commission a little while ago changed the debate style, and that’s not acceptable to us,” Trump told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo Thursday morning. “I’m not going to do a virtual debate.”
“I am not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. That’s not what debating is all about, you sit behind a computer and do a debate. That’s ridiculous, they cut you off whenever they want,” he added.
The debate commission sent out a press release Thursday morning announcing the rule change, citing the need to “protect the health and safety of all involved with the second presidential debate” scheduled for October 15.

This is obviously bullshit, intended to protect Biden’s lead in the polls. Even though I don’t for a minute believe that Biden is on pace for a historic landslide — which is what you’d have to believe if you trust the polls — it is clear that this “virtual debate” idea was suggested by Biden’s campaign with the full knowledge that Trump would reject it.

No more debates, no more chances for a disastrous Biden gaffe. In essence, then, the Biden campaign is trying to “freeze” the race, to prevent any further spontaneous events that might change the campaign trajectory which they believe favors their candidate.

Whether there will be any future debates is now in question, but it appears there definitely won’t be one on Oct. 15.




 

Category: Debates
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