Since I can remember, a standard ploy by demoncraps is to say that the Republicans threaten to cut Social Security, hoping the elderly will be stampeded into voting for them. When even the Washington Post,  an enemy of all things conservative, give their highest – 4 Pinocchios – indictment for lying to their beloved candidate, well………………..

WaPo Fact Checks Biden on Misleading Ad About Trump’s Plans for Social Security

The Washington Post called the Biden campaign’s bluff on a new ad that makes some lofty accusations about President Trump’s plans for Social Security.

Trump recently signed an executive order that would suspend the payment of payroll taxes until the end of the year starting on September 1. The majority of Social Security is financed through the payroll tax. Of course, taxpayers would still be expected to pay at a later date. The deferral was intended to help Americans who are struggling through the coronavirus pandemic, the White House explained. Trump also said that, if re-elected, he would aim to end the payroll tax altogether.

Here’s how the Biden camp spun it in their new ad, “Depleted.”

“The chief actuary of the Social Security Administration just released an analysis of Trump’s planned cuts to Social Security,” the ad claims. “Under Trump’s plan, Social Security would become permanently depleted by the middle of calendar year 2023. If Trump gets his way, Social Security benefits will run out in just three years from now. Don’t let it happen. Joe Biden will protect Social Security.”

The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler is here with the fact check.

Given that few lawmakers supported temporarily suspending the Social Security payroll tax, it’s a stretch to think Trump would win enough support to permanently suspend it — even if that were his policy. But if he wins reelection, it’s fair to think he could win congressional approval to cover the few months of payments owed by the Americans covered by his executive order………….

“The president was referring to making forgiveness of the temporary payroll tax deferral permanent,” said White House spokeswoman Sarah Matthews. “President Trump wants to fully fund and protect Social Security as he has stated numerous times.”

The ad asserts that if “Trump gets his way,” benefits will run out. But actually the letter says if transfers are made from general funds, no benefits would run out. That, at least at the moment, is what Trump says he would do.

That adds up to Four Pinocchios.

Worth pointing out
The Atlantic is owned by a Biden megadonor.

Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs, is the majority stakeholder in the publication. Powell Jobs was named by The New York Times among those who financed at least $500,000 of then-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign in the 2nd quarter this year.

Gun Control Activists Try To Spin August’s Record High Gun Sales

Since March, we’ve seen a new monthly record for NICS checks set every four weeks or so, and on Monday, when the FBI released its background check numbers for August, the trend continued. The 3.1 million checks performed by the FBI in August was down from July’s total of 3.6 million, but still set a new record for the month.

If you’re a gun control activist, how on earth do you spin these numbers? The National Shooting Sports Foundation estimates that more than 5-million Americans have become gun owners this year, demand is sky high, and there are also hundreds of thousands of Americans who’d like to join in the gun-buying frenzy but can’t because of long delays with gun licensing in several anti-gun states.

Everytown for Gun Safety tried their best to put a doom-and-gloom spin on the background check numbers, claiming that the polls are still on their side.

“With protestors being shot in the streets and gun violence on the rise, more guns is not the recipe for public safety,” said Nick Suplina, managing director of law and policy at Everytown for Gun Safety. “Fortunately, polls show this jump in sales leads more Americans to support common sense gun safety laws, which is bad news for every 2020 candidate who is still taking orders from the gun lobby, starting with President Trump.”

Polls show more Americans support gun control than they did a few months ago? Not according to this Rasmussen Poll from mid-August, which shows support for new gun laws cratering. Last August, Rasmussen found nearly 2/3rds of poll respondents agreed with the idea that more gun laws are needed. This August it had dropped 12 points to 54%. Still a majority, but a bare one, and the numbers are falling fast. Continue reading “”

“The point is the system we are fighting.”
Well, at least he’s an honest seditionist.

Maine Dem Campaign Staffers Helped Bail Out Violent Criminals.

At least seven staffers for Maine Democratic Senate candidate Sara Gideon donated to a bail fund that releases looters and other violent criminals from jail.

Gideon’s staffers posted on social media about their donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a group that pays criminal bail for protesters and looters regardless of whether they were violent or which crimes they committed. The donations came after individuals involved with anti-police demonstrations began looting and burning businesses in Minneapolis.

The Minnesota Freedom Fund has said it does not consider individuals’ charges before bailing them out. “I will see [the charges] after I pay the bill because it is not the point,” Greg Lewin, the fund’s interim executive director, said of the group’s efforts. “The point is the system we are fighting.” The group primarily aids Minneapolis rioters, who have caused $55 million in damages and left numerous businesses destroyed and parts of the city burned down. Continue reading “”

Decorated Veteran Who Saved Lives at Pearl Harbor Dies at 99

Decorated World War II veteran Floyd Welch of East Lyme, Connecticut, died peacefully in his home on Monday.

Floyd Welch was born in February of 1921. Twenty years later, he was serving aboard the USS Maryland. On December 7, Welch was stepping out of the shower when he heard alarms followed by a series of deafening explosions. Welch emerged on deck to see the USS Oklahoma overturned and sinking into the Pacific Ocean.

After he and the rest of the USS Maryland crew pulled survivors from the waves, Welch and his fellow soldiers boarded the USS Oklahoma where they heard tapping coming from inside the ship. They took immediate, and intelligent, action.

“By using blueprints of the Oklahoma, so as not to burn into a fuel void, we began the long and extremely difficult process of cutting holes through the bottom steel plates,” Welch wrote of his experience. “When we could see the planes coming, we would try to find cover. We would cut near where we heard the trapped crewmen tapping. In all, I believe 33 men from the Oklahoma were rescued through these holes.”

Welch continued his service aboard the USS Maryland until World War II ended. Continue reading “”

UNSW: “Climate change and the tyranny of psychological distance”

The University of New South Wales, birthplace of the Ship of Fools expedition which got stuck in the Antarctic ice, is concerned that people rapidly switch to other priorities, when disasters which don’t affect them personally are no longer front page news.

Climate change and the tyranny of psychological distance

03 SEP 2020   CAROLINE TANG

With last summer’s bushfires largely out of the headlines, has the psychological distance people might feel towards climate change increased?

UNSW Sydney’s Professor Ben Newell has been researching climate change psychology for a decade and his work focuses on how to tackle the preconceived notions people have which cloud their decision-making in the face of an uncertain future.

Prof. Newell said the past summer’s fire season was “extremely bad” but he wondered what would happen to people’s attitudes towards climate change if the bushfires were less severe this summer.

“Last summer’s smoke haze was a big concern because some people were seeing it as the new norm. They shrugged and said, ‘Oh, it’s smoky today and we’ve had a couple of months of it, whatever,’ but it seems wrong to already be at the point of accepting that’s just the way things are now,” he said……..

Prof. Newell defined psychological distance as a “construct” in one of his studies: “Psychological distance refers to the extent to which an object is removed from oneself; for example, in likelihood of occurrence, in time, in geographical space or in social distance,” he said.

“So, if people perceive climate change as psychologically distant from themselves, they could construe it in more abstract terms, potentially impeding action if the threat is perceived as less real, tangible or relevant.

“For example, the melting of the Arctic and Antarctic has been a wake-up call for years now but because they are sparsely populated, it’s not front and centre of many people’s concerns…….

“There’s a lot of literature that shows people adapt and acquiesce to seeing lots of the same type of stimulus over and over again – so, people become more and more likely to say, ‘Oh yeah, it’s just the same thing’,” he said.

“Sometimes even I find myself thinking, ‘I can’t think about this stuff anymore because it’s just too hard’, but I’m reminded of the necessity to keep talking about it, to keep reiterating the message.

“Even if there is a danger of habituation or disengagement, the danger of not talking about it is much worse. So, the continuous reminder these things are happening now and will keep happening again has to be part and parcel of it.”……………

Read more: https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/climate-change-and-tyranny-psychological-distance

What I find fascinating about Professor Newell’s words is the suggestion that he has to make a continuous personal effort to overcome his own natural tendency to habituate, to dismiss climate change as a high priority issue.

If even believers have to keep kicking themselves to believe, the end of the climate movement may be closer than we think.

From the multiple search engine hits with multiple dates, this apparently happens quite often in ChIraq.

Off-Duty Cook County Corrections Officer Shoots Armed Robber Who Was Trying To Carjack Him

CHICAGO (CBS) — An off-duty Cook County Sheriff’s corrections officer shot and wounded a man who was trying to carjack him along with two others in South Chicago early Thursday morning, officials said.

Around 2:30 a.m., the off-duty corrections officer was getting out of his car in the 7900 block of South Essex Avenue when three men walked up and tried to steal his car, according to the Sheriff’s office.

One of the men had a gun, the Sheriff’s office said.

The corrections officer fired his own gun and struck the armed man in the groin and arm, the Sheriff’s office said. The other two would-be robbers ran off, and the suspect who was shot was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was treated and released into Chicago Police custody.

A .38-caliber pistol was recovered at the scene, the Sheriff’s office said. It was not clear if the suspected armed robber fired it during the incident.

The robbery suspect is on parole for felony theft for stealing a television from a pawn shop, the Sheriff’s office said.

Chicago Police are investigating.

Student’s Love Trump’s Second Term Agenda…
When They Think It’s Biden’s

Patriot Prayer is only a ‘far-right’ group in the febrile imagination of the Times; the publisher & staff believing anyone one nanometer to the right of Stalin is a raving lunatic who makes the John Birch Society appear ‘soft’ on communism.

Suspect in Fatal Portland Shooting Is Killed by Officers During Arrest
Michael Forest Reinoehl, an antifa supporter, died when law enforcement went to arrest him, four officials said. He was being investigated in the fatal shooting of a member of a far-right group.

SEATTLE — A man being investigated in the fatal shooting of a right-wing activist who was part of a pro-Trump caravan in Portland, Ore., was killed on Thursday night when authorities moved to arrest him, according to three law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation.

The officials said the suspect, Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, was killed during the encounter in Lacey, Wash., southwest of Seattle, when a federal fugitive task force moved to apprehend him.

An arrest warrant had been issued by the Portland police earlier Thursday, on the same day that Vice News published an interview with Mr. Reinoehl in which he appeared to admit to the shooting, saying, “I had no choice.”

This will be the first, living, member of 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force) to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions performed while assigned to the unit. Sergeants Shughart and Gordon received the award posthumously for actions in Somalia back in ’93. John Cavaiani was assigned to the unit years afterwards.

SERGEANT MAJOR THOMAS P. PAYNE

Sgt. Maj. Thomas “Patrick” Payne, an instructor assigned to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, grew up in Batesburg-Leesville and Lugoff, South Carolina, and graduated from high school in 2002. Part of the 9/11 generation, Payne felt a strong sense of duty to serve his country. After high school, he enlisted in the Army as an Infantryman 11B and completed the Basic Airborne Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 2002 and the Ranger Indoctrination Program (now known as the Ranger Assessment and Selection Program) in early 2003.

He was then assigned as a rifleman to A Co., 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, where he also served as a sniper and sniper team leader until November 2007, the year he was selected for assignment to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Since then, he has served within USASOC as a special operations team member, assistant team sergeant, team sergeant and instructor.

 

 

Joe Biden Goes to Kenosha and Kills Off What’s Left of the #MeToo Movement

Joe Biden is leaving the basement today to go to Kenosha, Wisconsin. He is not going to survey the damage or provide solutions for business owners and residents whose lives and businesses have been destroyed. He’s not going to explain how he will support law enforcement in providing security for the law-abiding residents of Kenosha.

Instead, the centerpiece of his visit that is being promoted is his meeting with the family of Jacob Blake. Biden is going to lionize a man accused of sexual assault, who had a warrant out for his arrest, then showed up at the home of his alleged victim, and actively resisted arrest while trying to retrieve a knife from his car. He marched to the driver’s side door while officers were telling him to stop and tazed him twice to impede his progress.

Specifically, ABC notes that Biden will be meeting with Jacob Blake Sr. as described in this article at Heavy, the father has a significant history of anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-white, and misogynistic social media posts (language warning). He also appears to be a supporter of Louis Farrakhan. And the effective leader of the Democrat Party will participate in a community meeting with this man to “bring together Americans to heal and address the challenges we face.” Irony anyone? Continue reading “”

Appears to me that trying to rob people at car washes isn’t the smartest thing to do. Of course, no one ever said that most criminals were smart.

Suspected robber fatally shot at Wash Pointe Car Wash in Roseville

ROSEVILLE, Mich. – Police are investigating an attempted robbery that resulted in a fatal shooting that killed one of the accused robbers, Roseville police said.

The shooting happened at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Wash Pointe Car Wash. Police say a 30-year-old man was at the car wash and was approached by two male suspects who revealed a handgun and attempted to rob the car wash patron.

The car wash patron was armed and police said he “exchanged gunfire with one of the alleged robbers.” During the shooting, one of the robbers — now identified as a 16-year-old boy from Detroit — was shot and later pronounced dead at a local hospital.

The 30-year-old man was initially arrested and then was released pending investigation and prosecutor review. The second male suspect fled the scene on foot and is being sought by police.

Carjackers charged with murder after victim kills accomplice in self-defense

A man and woman have been charged with murder after an armed carjacking victim shot and killed their 18-year-old accomplice in self defense at a South County car wash over the weekend.

Police officers found Brandon Whitfield, 18, of the 1700 block of Rosado in Spanish Lake, 63138, dying of at least one gunshot wound when they responded to the scene at the Classic Car Wash in the 4800 block of Lemay Ferry Road around 1:17 a.m. Sunday. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

St. Louis County prosecutors on Tuesday charged Markus Billingsley, 34, and Radonna Smith, 36, both of the 3900 block of South Grand Boulevard in St. Louis, 63118, with a slate of felonies in Whitfield’s death. Continue reading “”

What was that book by Kennedy; Profiles in courage chutzpah?

Pelosi says San Francisco salon ‘owes me an apology for setting me up.’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is asking for an apology from her salon — and what it did to her hair has nothing to do with it.

On Tuesday, Erica Kious shared a security video of a maskless Pelosi getting a haircut inside her San Francisco salon despite the fact that the area only allows outdoor haircuts right now; Kious also admitted she knew about the appointment ahead of time and let it happen. Pelosi wouldn’t apologize to Kious or to her critics on Wednesday, instead asking Kious to apologize to her instead.

“I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighborhood salon I’ve been to over the years many times,” Pelosi said on Wednesday, claiming the salon told her it could take one customer at a time. “As it turns out, it was a setup, so I take responsibility for falling for a setup,” she continued. “I think that this salon owes me an apology, for setting me up.” Continue reading “”

Do you call that an ‘own goal’?

Wilkinsburg Home Intruder Apparently Shot, Killed By Accomplice

WILKINSBURG, Pa. (KDKA) — Allegheny County Police detectives are investigating a fatal shooting in Wilkinsburg.

According to police, this started out as a home invasion. Around 11 p.m. Monday night five people inside a house — three men and two women — were met with intruders.

Allegheny County Police say the home invasion along Penn Avenue involved two intruders. Police say when they were inside, they were confronted by two armed men who live in the home.

Police said soon afterward, one of the intruders began shooting then ran out through the front door, while the second intruder ran out through the back door.

Shots fired, screaming and yelling is something Howard Jackson doesn’t typically hear at night. But he did less than 24 hours ago, right across from where he lives.

“Violence is tremendous today,” said Howard Jackson.

While Wilkinsburg Police were searching the area, they found the body of a 29-year old man along the intersection of Superior Street and Penn Avenue. That man was found wearing a ski mask.

Allegheny County Police say through their investigation, they found the two armed men who live in the home did not return fire. As of Tuesday morning, investigators say it appears the man was struck by gunfire from his accomplice.

“I know it woke up the neighborhood. I mean the people in the apartment building — because people started coming out of their homes,” said Jackson.

With no job, how is he able to buy, or lease, a Mercedes Sprinter van, not to mention keep it fueled and serviced, then repeatedly fill it with food and gear, and drive it cross country, again and again and again?
Vajko looks more like a paid Antifa logistics and supply officer, (and I know precisely what one looks like since I worked side by side with U.S. Army ‘Log Reps’ for several years) which backs up the theory that Antifa is an organized insurgent militia.

REVEALED: BLM protester arrested for recklessly driving his spray-painted van in DC was also at Portland and Kenosha riots – as police say they’re investigating if groups are being ‘funded’ to travel to hot-spots

  • Jeremy Vajko, 27, was arrested on Saturday in Washington DC on a reckless driving charge
  • Police say he plowed his van – that is spray painted with BLM – into a riot of ‘a hundred people’
  • He was released from custody on Monday morning and has not been charged
  • Vajko was also arrested in Portland, twice, for interfering with police officers
  • He also says he was pulled over in Kenosha for driving with temporary plates
  • He insists that he is acting alone, is non-violent and has just been giving out snacks and water
  • On Monday, DC police chief Peter Newsham said at a press conference that he was among ‘outside agitators’ who’d come to DC
  • He said he had ‘intelligence’ that the van was also in other riot hot-spots
  • Newsham said the FBI was now helping the DC police department investigate ‘domestic terrorism’ generally

A BLM protester who was arrested in Washington DC on Saturday night has also been at riots in Portland and Kenosha, police said on Monday, as they revealed they were looking into whether groups were being funded to travel to protest hot-spots.

Jeremy Vajko, 27, was arrested on Saturday night during violent clashes between police and protesters in the nation’s capital.

He had been working as a senior engineer at Microsoft until May, but left the company and has been on the road, supporting the BLM movement, since then.

Continue reading “”

Candidate Joe Biden Wants You Disarmed & Defenseless

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Nationwide, Americans tune in each night to find that rioting, looting, and unanswered 911 calls are our “new normal.”

We are repeatedly seeing American businesses looted and burned down while business owners are beaten and killed for defending their livelihoods.

The business owner requested “help [to] protect what he had left of his life’s work” after crippling damage from the previous nights’ rioting and looting.

That evening, Kyle would first defend himself from a twice-convicted pedophile who was chasing him and lunging for his AR-15, and later fight off two other attackers, one with a skateboard and another with a drawn a handgun.

Having watched the video evidence, President Trump observed that Kyle “was trying to get away” from his attackers before he fell and was “very violently attacked.” He also said that, had Kyle not defended himself, “he probably would have been killed.”

These are the words of a man who believes in the natural, God-given right to self-defense. Continue reading “”

Rules for thee, but not for ME!!

Pelosi’s Vain Reason for Violating the Very Coronavirus Rules She Championed

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) visited a hair salon in San Francisco on Monday despite the Wuhan coronavirus regulations that closed salons throughout the city. Salons in Pelosi’s district have been closed since March when the pandemic began.

According to a video obtained by FoxNews.com, Pelosi visited eSalon for a wash and blowout. In the footage, Pelosi is seen in a salon cape, with wet hair and no face mask. According to coronavirus rules in California, stylists aren’t allowed to blow dry inside a building.

The owner of the salon, Erica Kious, decided to share the footage because of the double standard. Continue reading “”

DHS Chief: Feds ‘Targeting And Investigating’ Heads Of BLM, Antifa And Those Who Fund Them

Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Monday night that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was investigating the heads of Black Lives Matter and Antifa over the violent rioting that has broken out in Democratic-controlled cities across the United States.

Wolf began the segment by noting that 77-year-old Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was “delusional” after Biden suggested today that there would be more violence if Trump won re-election. Continue reading “”

Suspected burglar shot by homeowner while attempting to break into Southwest Bakersfield home

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A suspected burglar was shot by a homeowner Sunday night while in the midst of breaking into a Southwest Bakersfield residence, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.

According to BPD, the suspect and the homeowner had some relation to each other, but they did not specify.

BPD said officers responded to reports of a burglary in-process at the 2300 block of Mirto Court Sunday around 6 p.m. When they arrived, the homeowner reported someone attempting to force entry into the residence. The homeowner reported he armed himself with a handgun and fired at the suspect.

The suspect sustained multiple gunshots and was admitted to the hospital with moderate, but non-life-threatening injuries. BPD said the suspect is in stable condition.