Day: June 10, 2020

ANTIFA: AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE DEMOCRATS’ 2020 PLAYBOOK~IT’S DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN

BY KENNETH R. TIMMERMAN

SEE: https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/06/antifa-–-just-part-democrats-2020-playbook-kenneth-r-timmerman;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

When I see videos of Antifa thugs smashing and looting luxurious shopfronts on Fifth Avenue in New York, for me it’s déjà vu all over again.

I wrote those scenes in my new book, The Election Heist, which I sent to my publisher last November.

I’m not claiming to be a prophet, but I do believe that fiction precedes reality. By that, I mean that by using our imagination, we can apply patterns of observed behavior to future situations.

Let me give you a specific example. In one of the Antifa scenes in my new book, an NYPD officer guarding Trump Tower takes a call from the deputy police commissioner, even as the thugs start charging the Gucci store front next door.

The deputy commissioner tells him to stand down.

Here’s how it went from there:

Caruso wanted to say unspeakable things.

“Not possible, sir,” he said finally. “We are requesting backup.”

“Stand down, Caruso. Do you hear me?”

“Not easy, Commissioner. Can you hear me?”

He keyed the walkie-talkie so this piece of political jerky could hear the utter chaos around him: screaming kids, cops with billy clubs, the crowd across the street, and everybody shouting.

“Stand down,” the commissioner said again.

“Not possible, sir.”

“Why the hell not?”

“There’s no place to stand, sir. We’re surrounded and they are swinging baseball bats and pipe wrenches. It looks like there are around two hundred of them, sir.”

“Well, talk to them.”

“Huh?”

“Talk to them. That’s what the good cops are supposed to do.”

I won’t tell you how it ended except to say that it didn’t go well for the men in blue.

Just this past week, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted Bill De Blasio for phoning his police chiefs and ordering them not to enforce the law. “Pretty soon, we're going to lose lives if this man doesn't get out of the way and let someone activate the police department,” Rudy tweeted.

I know for a fact that neither Rudy nor De Blasio have read my book. But De Blasio has behaved exactly as I predicted, and Giuliani has called him out on it.

Using the same techniques of projecting what we know about political actors from past behavior into the future, I believe the Democrats are planning to steal the 2020 election.

Sure, you say. They are planning to win the election. You just call that stealing because you favor President Trump.

Actually, that’s not why I believe the Democrats are planning to steal the election. Call it forty years of political insight and intuition. Call it research and information. Call it cynical. Or just call it a very strong gut feeling based on hard facts.

What we have witnessed since the unwarranted and illegal killing of George Floyd on May 25 is the Democrat playbook for 2020, exposed for all the world to see. And all of these pieces figure prominently in The Election Heist.

We have the mass demonstrations. We have the demonization of the police. We have the media’s outrageous lies and misrepresentations. We have the heroism of so many individuals standing up for their communities and their property, brutally murdered by the Antifa thugs and their cohorts.

All of that figures in my book – with one more key piece that so far, you do NOT see in the news: the Democrat plan to steal the election in case their mass movement fails to deliver victory at the ballot box, as I believe it will fail to do.

I am not claiming to be a prophet. But I would ask that you apply the rules of prophecy here. How do you know if a prophet was inspired or just making stuff up? If his predictions come true.

The same rule holds in the world of intelligence, which I know something about from all my years investigating the underside of world events. If a source is right on item one, and item two, and item three – which you can corroborate – then you had darn well better listen to him on item four, which you cannot.

So watch out for item four.

Democrats believe that 2020 will be a replay of 1968, except that they will win the presidency this time. And just to make sure, they have a plan. In my book, I call it the “secret switch.”

Even our paper ballots are vulnerable, as a friend who works in a government alphabet soup agency confided. “Anything that is controlled by software can be hacked,” he said. Our paper ballots are all tabulated by computers running on sophomoric software.

Let me make one more prediction for November 2020: the Democrat plan will fail. They will not win at the ballot box, because a majority of Americans do not embrace chaos nor do they believe America is fundamentally racist or the origin of all evil. And they will not succeed in their effort to hack the election, because enough smart election officials have now been warned and will be on the look-out for their shenanigans.

As they say, from my lips to God’s ear.




	







	

		

	




			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
WE’RE NOT ALL IN THIS TOGETHER~THE GOVERNORS RUNNING THE LOCKDOWNS ARE NOT IN THIS WITH US
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

	

						

		


			

	

	

		

	
BY DANIEL GREENFIELD


SEE: https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/were-not-all-together-daniel-greenfield;


republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:



Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.


"We're All In This Together," the sappy title of one of several bad songs, has become the Ministry of Information slogan of the pandemic. You hear it while shopping for groceries at the supermarket, see it on billboards that tell you to social distance your way off the street, and in every single ad on TV.


And then, after months of being locked indoors and that we were out to kill grandma if we left the house, the same media lauded massive numbers of rioters crowding together to curse the cops.


The political fiction of the pandemic died once its administrators found a shiny new fascist object.


Mayor Bill de Blasio went from threatening the Orthodox Jewish community for holding a funeral to appearing without a mask at an anti-police rally even as much of New York City is still shut down.


"Mr. Mayor, are we in a pandemic or not? And do we have one set of rules for protesters and another for everyone else?" Hamodia, an Orthodox Jewish publication, asked De Blasio.


"When you see a nation… grappling with... 400 years of American racism, I'm sorry, that is not the same question as... the devout religious person who wants to go back to services," he snapped back.


Governor Murphy described anti-lockdown and anti-police protests as being in "different orbits".


Just to be clear, we’re not all in this together. And we never were. Social distancing doesn’t apply when you’re burning down cities, you can only get sick when you’re praying to G-d or burying your dead.


The lockdowns existed at the pleasure of the politicians implementing them. And when the politicians found a lefty cause that they really liked, the rioters and looters were exempted from social distancing like kids told that they can leave algebra class early on Tuesday to go protest for the environment.


Lockdowns were always for little people. Not for celebrities, politicians or political radicals.


Martha Stewart is quarantining with her driver, housekeeper, and gardener. Lefty author Neil Gaiman decided that he needed to get away from his wife and flew from New Zealand to Scotland. David Geffen, the Hollywood billionaire tycoon who helped finance Buttigieg’s presidential campaign, tweeted, “Isolated in the Grenadines avoiding the virus” from his $590 million yacht which boasts a staff of 55.


The riots just applied to the rioters and looters the same privilege that politicians had enjoyed.


Governor J.B. Pritzker's wife and daughter enjoyed the lockdown far from Illinois on their equestrian estate near Palm Beach, and then headed to the 230-acre horse farm in Wisconsin that the Illinois boss had bought his wife as an anniversary present. After claiming that his family deserved privacy and was being endangered by reports of his hypocrisy, the billionaire contended that their travel was essential.


"We have a working farm. They’re there now. There are animals on that farm, that it’s an essential function to take care of animals at a farm, so that’s what they’re doing,” he argued.


He didn’t explain who was taking care of the horses once his wife and daughter went on to Wisconsin.


Then he banned a reporter who had first tweeted about it from his press conferences.


The same media which had howled in outrage when President Trump had dumped CNN and Playboy correspondents for egregious behavior, including assault, had nothing to say about a free press.


Not only was it essential for Pritzker’s family to vacation on one massive horse ranch and then another, but it was essential for Illinois workers to travel to Wisconsin to help build a huge home on the ranch. Local residents reported 20 to 30 trucks a day coming from Chicago to labor on this essential project.


"They're operating an essential function. Construction is an essential function," Pritzker whined.


Around the same time, Pritzker was using the slogan, "We're all in this together" to promote his, "All in Illinois" initiative to tell everyone to stay home. “‘All in’ is our anthem and point of pride," Pritzker had falsely claimed. "Illinoisans staying home for the good of each other and the good of our state."


Unless it's to work on the billionaire governor's latest mansion. Or loot some Chicago pharmacies.


The difference between essential and non-essential was always a political fiction. The protesters who were told that their protest was non-essential were just protesting for the wrong cause. Going to church or synagogue, burying your dead, or protesting for your rights was non-essential in the same way that Pritzker’s mansion and family vacations were essential. What was essential was who was in charge.


We’re not all in this together. Ask New York Governor Cuomo’s brother Chris, who casually violated quarantine, and then starred in a fake news CNN video of leaving quarantine for his coronavirus infection. Ask Virginia’s Governor Northam who didn’t wear a mask to the beach before ordering everyone to wear masks. Ask Wisconsin's Justice Rebecca Dallet who opposed the court decision ending the state lockdown, warning, "Wisconsinites will pay the price", before allegedly going on a boat trip.


Ask New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham who told non-essential businesses they had to shut down and then had a non-essential business open up so she could get some expensive jewelry.


Ask Professor Neil Ferguson of the Imperial College Model who was caught sneaking out for an affair or Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot who got a haircut after shutting down salons and barbershops. Or ask Dr. Richard (Rachel) Levine whose policies at the Pennsylvania Department of Health introduced coronavirus patients into nursing homes, but made sure to remove his mother from her nursing home.


Michigan’s Governor Whitmer had issued orders banning just about everything. And then a marina operator got a call from her husband about getting their boat in the water for Memorial Day.


"I am the husband to the governor; will this make a difference?" Whitmer's husband asked.


Governor Whitmer claimed that her husband was joking and that he only traveled to a second home to rake leaves. That comes from the same tyrannical termagant whose bans had extended to yardwork.


We’re not all in this together. We never were.


The coronavirus touched Manhattan only lightly. That was partly because its residents could afford to get away.


When rentals were shut down, they bought houses elsewhere, sight unseen. About 5% of New Yorkers, over 400,000 people, left the city, abandoning trendy and wealthy neighborhoods in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The pandemic spread along their wake. Those who left included not only the elite, celebrities and billionaires, but the upscale wealthy liberals who keep the Democrats going nationwide.


The abandoned zip codes are also the ones that have been pouring money into left-wing politics.


When you hear another, "We're All In This Together," commercial, remember that it’s probably the brainchild of a Bernie Sanders supporter who found a second home in upstate New York or Vermont.


That includes the 10022 zip code, the top money source in the 2018 election cycle, where between 40% to 30% of the population vanished. A quarter of the population of 10075, the tenth biggest money zip code in the cycle, vanished. Ditto for the eleventh, twelfth and fifteenth top election cash zip codes.


The New York City cash that fueled the 2018 Democrat wave was not together in this with us.


The posh parts of Manhattan are being looted because they were abandoned. All the rich toys being stolen by thugs are there because the elites who would normally be buying them are out of town.


Lockdown culture was an elite scam. The politicians, the technocrats, and the ad geniuses who imposed and sold lockdown culture to the country weren’t living it.


The pandemic and lockdowns did not hit us all equally. The division of society into essential and non-essential workers made certain of that by protecting some jobs while eliminating others. This plague year experiment in the New Deal 2.0 replaced any kind of togetherness with a political class system.


The administrators of that system, like Pritzker and Whitmer, were never living under it.


"We're All In This Together,” does not offer unity or togetherness. It demands compliance from us for our assigned roles. Like 1984’s slogans, it means the opposite of what it actually says. Freedom was slavery, ignorance was knowledge, and being in it together meant that none of us had any say in it.  


The lockdowns weren’t driven by science, but by ideology. That’s why the rioters crowding in D.C. and NYC are immune from the coronavirus while the spring breakers in Florida were going to kill everyone.


Underneath the sappy ad-speak was a Maoist Confucianism worthy of the Little Red Book in whose Communist system the coronavirus pandemic had originated. It has largely gone unnoticed that the coronavirus slogans we hear are minor variations of those deployed in China by the Communist Party.


"Better to wear a mask than a ventilator; better to stay at home than in an ICU", "this year a house visit, next year a grave visit", or "stay in and don't wander around, you have AC, television and Wi-Fi as your friends” should sound familiar. It’s not just our electronics that are made in China. So is our propaganda.


And, just as in China, the lockdown is applied unequally by a tyrannical leftist political system.


Togetherness, in our pandemic propaganda, is defined as being isolated members of an unseen collective, reinforced by slogans like #AloneTogether or “Stay Apart, Stay Together”. It means complying with directives, informing on the disobedient, and listening to the experts without asking any questions.


"We're All In This Together” manufactures mass consent. The “We”, “All”, and “Together” represent a conformist mass in whose ranks the individual is only valued for his or her willingness to obey.


All of it, as Mary McCarthy said of a Communist hack, "is a lie, including 'And' and 'The.’”


When the collective was told to stop watching Netflix and start burning and looting, the “We” went out and did it, while the rest of us who are mere individuals looked on in horror and bewilderment.


No one in the collective can or will note the radical shift from mandatory isolation to mass riots. Collectives don’t recognize that their herd impulse has changed. Life for the brainwashed is unchanging. Once there was always isolation and now there are permanent protests. Tomorrow there will be something else. But that is not a concept that the “We” are capable of embracing as a collective.


"We're All In This Together” is a state of mindless and unquestioning conformity. And it’s un-American.


Americans are not a Communist collective: we are a nation of individuals. Our togetherness doesn’t come from the illusion of functioning as an undifferentiated mass, but of pursuing our own individual strivings for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Collectivism is a lie that conceals the humbug wizards behind the curtains, and the oligarchies that make the decisions. It tells us to set aside our own interests and needs, to become part of Zamyatin’s “We”, to stop thinking and believe the lies.


The lies keep changing.


Yesterday we were huddling in our homes in our togetherhood of apartness. Now we’re supposed to be rioting together and calling for the abolition of the police. Each false cause is replaced by another big lie. If you can see past the lies, you’re not “Together” with the “We”. You’re one of the last Americans.




 



	







	

		

	




			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	
		
	
		
	

		
		
USA TODAY NAMES HAMAS-LINKED “CAIR”S NIHAD AWAD ONE OF “THE MOST INFLUENTIAL CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS OF TODAY”
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

	

						

		


			

	

	

		

	
BY ROBERT SPENCER


SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/06/usa-today-names-hamas-linked-cairs-nihad-awad-one-of-the-most-influential-civil-rights-leaders-of-today;


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Civil rights: CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim “Honest Ibe” Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush in 2017 called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. CAIR’s national outreach manager is an open supporter of Hamas.


Awad himself has said that he supports Hamas. Nonetheless, this honor is among many he has received, and no one will utter a murmur of protest. But imagine the uproar if USA Today named a foe of jihad terror one of “the most influential civil rights leaders of today.” There would be petitions, protests, whining about how Muslims felt endangered, and probably the paper would apologize and boot the foe of jihad terror from its list.




“From Esmeralda Simmons to Laverne Cox, here are 19 of the most influential civil rights leaders of today,” by Hristina Byrnes and John Harrington, USA Today, June 7, 2020:


8. Nihad Awad


• Occupation: Co-founder and CEO of the Council on American-Islamic Relations


• Location: Washington, D.C.


• Cause: Muslim civil liberties


Nihad Awad, who leads the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the country’s largest Islamic advocacy organization, has been one of America’s foremost Muslim voices after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The group monitors hate crimes and discrimination against Muslim Americans. The organization also counsels and advocates for people who have experienced religious discrimination. In 2017, Nihad was the recipient of the Phillips Brooks House Association’s Robert Coles “Call of Service” Lecture and Award, which is meant to “bring a significant leader in public service to Harvard each fall.”




 



	







	

		

	




			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
REPORT: ANTIFA BUILDING A HEAVILY ARMED MILITARY WING
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

	

						

		


			

	

	

		

	
BY R. CORT KIRKWOOD


SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/35963-report-antifa-building-a-heavily-armed-military-wing;


republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:



Antifa, the violent anarchist group that has taken to the streets to help Black Lives Matter promote rioting and looting, is building an armed military wing that is preparing for revolution.


In the third installment of its Antifa expose, Project Veritas has exposed an Antifa subsidiary called Redneck Revolt, a brigade of heavily armed revolutionaries who practice at gun ranges for either terror attacks or a full-scale military assault on state and local, if not federal, authorities.


PV’s undercover reporter also revealed that heavily armed members showed up at the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.


Undercover Mission

Redneck Revolt’s website says it “puts the Red back in Redneck,” an explicit assocation with communism, and chapters sometimes call themselves John Brown Gun Clubs after the 18th-century terrorist who raided Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.


The reporter contacted its affiliate in Shelby, North Carolina, through Facebook Messenger.


The reporter met with members, answered questions, and joined them at a gun range, where they practiced with semi-automatic weapons of the kind that leftist politicians wish to ban.


“They are Antifa in that they share the Antifa ideology,” she said. “This particular group sees themselves as armed revolutionaries,” and like good old-fashioned communists everywhere, believe they must abolish the state so the “working class” can take over, then run the country without law and order or government.


“They’re all about the working class,” she said. “You know, so they share this communist Anarchist ideal that the working class should run the country with no government.”


As well, one of their missions is to provide weapons to minorities because “they feel that black Americans and minorities are disenfranchised by gun laws and permit fees.”












The reporter said going to a gun range with the fanatics was particularly nerve-wracking because, wired with a camera, she feared she would be discovered.


Members of the group questioned her closely about her ideology and how she would handle being approached by police, or, how she should react if someone called her a terrorist at a gun show.


Redneck Revolt also produces communist propaganda for kids, including a John Brown coloring book.


“They believe in total abolition of everything, including the police,” she said, explaining the group’s presence at the Charlottesville rally at which police promoted the violent confrontation that eventually led to one person’s death.


“Charlottesville was comprised of your typical Antifa black-bloc measures,” meaning the regalia with which Antifa goons attire themselves when they’re out for trouble. “There were multiple chapters of Redneck Revolt that went to Charlottesville and acted as the militia wing of the anti-fascist movement.”


They booted her out of the group when they found out she endorsed a candidate for sheriff. They told her they do not believe in reform “of any kind,” as she put it.


If true, it means the group must be preparing for an armed revolution.


Violence Training

PV’s latest exposé follows last week’s two video reports that revealed Antifa’s devotion to violent confrontation with those who oppose it.


PV recorded two training sessions at which Antifa “instructors” importuned the willing to gouge eyes and kidney-punch opponents.


Neither today’s nor last week’s revelations are surprising given the violent rap sheet Antifa has already massed.


Cops in Austin, Texas, recently charged three Antifa goons with felonies for raiding a Target store, and journalist Andy Ngo has sued Rose City Antifa in Oregon — where the instructor advised punching a person’s vital organs — for brutally attacking him at rallies he covered and sending a squad to his house on Halloween to terrorize him and his family.


One of three Antifa thugs who attacked two Marines in Philadelphia in late 2018 and advocated the murder of President Trump was a top “progressive” activist with access to leading Democrats on Capitol Hill.


Three years ago, an Antifa goon walked away from four felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon after he split open a man’s head and attacked others at a pro-Trump free-speech rally in Berkeley.


Antifa routinely attacks police as well.


In 2016, the FBI labeled Antifa’s street warfare domestic terror, an assessment U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr reiterated when rioting and looting began after the shooting of George Floyd.


GOP Senators Ted Cruz and Bill Cassidy want the group officially designated as a terror outfit.




 



	







	

		

	




			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
NATO: TRUMP PLANS TO REDUCE U.S. TROOP PRESENCE IN GERMANY BY MORE THAN 25%
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

	

						

		


			

	

	

		

	
BY WARREN MASS


SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/35962-nato-trump-plans-to-reduce-u-s-troop-presence-in-germany-by-more-than-25-percent;


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An unnamed former senior U.S. official stated on June 5 that President Trump plans to remove 9,500 U.S. troops from Germany, reducing the total number to 25,000. The plan aims to complete the withdrawal by September. The report was originally featured in the Wall Street Journal and also carried by the New York Times. 


The decision reflects Trump’s position that other NATO members should bear a greater share of the cost of maintaining the U.S-European defense alliance. The Times report noted that while Germany spent 1.36 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on defense in 2019, that number is still significantly short of NATO’s stated target of two percent. 


The Times noted that last August, Richard Grenell, who was then the U.S. ambassador to Germany, suggested that it made little sense that Germany would maintain a budget surplus while failing to meet the NATO spending guidelines and then rely on U.S. troops to bolster its defense.


“At the urging of President Trump, NATO allies increased their defense spending by $140 billion so it only makes sense that the American people don’t have to carry the burden as much,” Grenell was quoted by the Times.


Trump’s arguments concerning the proper level of U.S. involvement in NATO have so far been based solely on economics and have not addressed the greater question of why the United States has troops stationed in Europe in the first place.


Over many years, The New American has questioned not only U.S. support of NATO, in the form of both troops and money, but the very necessity of continuing the existence of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.


When NATO was created in 1949, its leaders claimed the pact was needed to block further Soviet advances in Europe after practically all of Eastern Europe’s nations had already been conquered and made part of a Soviet-ruled empire. However, if that were its real purpose, NATO should have closed its doors when the Soviet empire collapsed close to 30 years ago. Aside from the fact that NATO has outlived its original mandate, however, is the fact that its founders had a more sinister ulterior motive. 


As we have noted,


Always a subsidiary of the United Nations to whom it owes its very existence (see Articles 52-54 of the UN Charter), the pact requires all participants to consider an attack on any NATO member an attack on all NATO members. Heavily promoted at its founding by world government advocates John Foster Dulles (who admitted it being “a step in a political evolution”) and Dean Acheson (who claimed “it will strengthen the United Nations”), it drew opposition from Senator Robert Taft (R-Ohio) as a threat aimed at U.S. sovereignty.


President Emeritus of The John Birch Society and former publisher of The New American John McManus stated, “Our nation needs leaders who will restore undiluted U.S. independence. The clear way to accomplish this sorely needed restoration involves quitting NATO and withdrawing from the United Nations.”


Related articles:


NATO’s Real Purpose


The Truth About NATO


NATO: A Military Entangling Alliance


NATO: The UN’s Military Arm




 



	







	

		

	




			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
MAGA RALLIES RETURNING AS TRUMP’S POLL NUMBERS HIGHER THAN OBAMA’S!
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

	

						

		


			

	

	

		

	
★★★ A NEW CONSERVATIVE AGE IS RISING ★★★ 


The MAGA rallies are returning as President Trump’s poll numbers are actually higher than Obama’s were at the same time in his presidency! In this video, we’re going to look at the latest announcement by the Trump campaign about the return of the rallies, why those rallies are so politically effective, and how they’re only going to increase the president’s support that signals a massive victory in November; you’re not going to want to miss it!




Trump to Resume Rallies; 


Media Suddenly Concerned About Social Distancing Again


BY BOB ADELMANN


SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/35970-trump-to-resume-rallies-media-suddenly-concerned-about-social-distancing-again;


republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:



Following the remarkably robust and surprising jobs report released last Friday, President Trump’s reelection campaign manager Brad Parscale announced that his political rallies would resume:


Americans are ready to get back to action, and so is President Trump. The great American comeback is real and the rallies will be tremendous.


You’ll again see the kind of crowds and enthusiasm that sleepy Joe Biden can only dream of.


The media immediately pivoted away from covering the George Floyd protests and riots without a murmur of concern about the lack of “social distancing,” and are now criticizing the president’s decision to resume his rallies.


Politico’s headline perfectly illustrated the pivot: “Trump to Restart MAGA Rallies this Month Despite Coronavirus.” NPR joined in, tweeting, “President Trump will hit the campaign trail this month — despite the deadly coronavirus pandemic, which continues to impact the lives and livelihoods of households across the country.”


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the floor of the Senate on Tuesday to call out the hypocrisy:


Many Americans feel they’ve just seen those fastidious regulations and that puritanical zeal disappear in an instant because a new cause has emerged that powerful people agree with.


A month ago, small protest demonstrators were widely condemned as reckless and selfish. Now, massive rallies that fill entire cities are not just praised but in fact are called especially brave because of the exact same health risks that brought condemnation when the cause was different.


Conservative columnist and commentator Jonah Goldberg nailed the perfidy and the pivot:


We spent the last couple of months being hectored by public health experts and earnestly righteous media personalities who insisted that easing lockdown policies was immoral, that refusing to social distance or wear masks was nigh upon murderous. They even suggested that protests were somehow profane.


But now that the George Floyd protests are serving as some kind of Great Awokening, many of the same are saying “never mind” about all of that. Protests aren’t profane, they’re glorious and essential — if they agree with what you’re protesting about.


But, now that Trump is resuming his rallies to reinvigorate his base and polish his campaign talking points, the media is back to voicing concerns about spreading the virus unless those rules that were being ignored when the cause was different are reinstituted.


Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel addressed those concerns on Fox & Friends on Tuesday: “There are a lot of things we can do to make sure this is safe, but people want to get out and rally. They want to get out and start campaigning and being part of this election for this president.… The enthusiasm for him is through the roof.”


Republican strategists aren’t worried about the media’s pivot, but instead are counting on the exposure of their blatant hypocrisy to mute their criticism of the president’s resumption of his rallies. In fact, they are planning on using the rallies as a metaphor for his campaign’s central focus: reopening the economy as they restart the rallies.