Masters of deception

The Friday Letter / No. 444 / Orlando, Florida

People who hear bits and pieces of information – often incorrectly described as news – without understanding where stories fit into the bigger context can be dangerously ill-informed. Opinions are cheap and plentiful. Our constitutional republic will survive only with massive, widespread dissemination of fact: the truth, all of it, seated in reality.

For several months we've tried to ignore an absurd Internet fantasy that President Trump plans to run for Congress, instantly get elected Speaker, and then impeach President Biden and Vice President Harris, thereby installing himself once again as president. The story won't go away. Never mind that the incumbent Democrat in Trump's District 21, in Congress since 2013, won re-election last year with 59% of the vote. Further never mind that the House Republican caucus doesn't have enough constitutional conservatives to replace Kevin McCarthy with Trump. And, just to put a nail in this ridiculous coffin, never mind that the Senate doesn't have even 30 conservatives, let alone the 67 votes necessary for removal.

And what would be grounds for impeaching Kamala Harris?
Just asking.

We don't know the origin of this nonsense, whether a tin-hat nutbag or a radical revolutionary on the left. It doesn't matter.

Grasping the wider context is important because actual events are swirling around mostly unnoticed. Democrat-controlled news media ask fawning questions about Biden's cat and non approvingly at his handlers' pronouncements that “systemic” racism and climate change are the country's “existential” threats. The purpose, of course, is to distract us from the real threats: China, illegal immigration, rising violence, societal breakdown.

But also swirling around are truths ignored by state-friendly media. We should pay attention, because they portend real hope for the nation. We note a few of them:

Parents around the country of every political stripe are awakening to the tyranny of local school boards and are beginning to push back in big ways. They are showing up at board meetings and demanding an end to the racial bigotry that is poisoning our children. They are mounting recall campaigns. In short, they shining light on the left's cynical move to destroy all respect for our great nation. This is where political power incubates, at the local level.

Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar, re-elected to Texas border district 28 with 59% of the vote, is screaming loudly about the border crisis even as mainstream media ignore the story while VP Harris lies on NBC that she has visited the border. (She has not.) Little reported is Trump's support from U.S. citizens with Hispanic surnames in Texas border districts.

The woke culture is getting some well-deserved, long-overdue sunshine. People are beginning to say “no more” to the left's attempts to destroy the country. They took notice when Kamala Harris, president-in-waiting, wished us a happy weekend two weeks ago with no acknowledgment of Memorial Day.

And Americans are becoming increasingly alarmed that the Biden Administration's secretary of defense believes his role is to provide career opportunities for minorities and women, not to make our defense apparatus so ominous that nobody would even think of challenging us.

Add to that the weak, clueless, feckless secretary of state, who continually apologizes for America's greatness – a tradition started by Barack Obama. Or the secretary of homeland security, who says there is no border crisis.

But if any of this counts, Americans must stop lobbing pot-shots from the peanut gallery and must get active – running for school boards and town councils, for state legislatures and Congress. This is where the action is, where it all begins.

Recommended reading

Parents weary of the propaganda the public schools are feeding their children will find no better antidote than Theodore Roosevelt Malloch's piece at American Greatness, “America Has Long Had a Racist Political Party.” Here is a history lesson that lays out the shameful history of the Democrat Party's role in fomenting the racial bigotry that existed from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era, and Obama's role in reprising racial division that had mostly disappeared from American life. This one is a keeper, something to print and save as part of an arsenal of educational firepower to counteract the 1619 Project nonsense.

Short takes on the news

NAACP to the rescue. Nikole Hannah-Jones, who wrote the fictional 1619 Project essay on America's founding for the New York Times Magazine, had her demand for tenure again denied by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill trustees. She has now brought in the NAACP to lead her legal challenge, even though tenure is commonly awarded only dafter several years of teaching, research, and scholarly writing, along with rigorous peer review, none of which Nikole has. She has never taught at the college level and has no published reviewed scholarly writing. . .

Update on the preservation of the rule of law. Because D.C. prosecutors refused to charge her as an adult, the 15-year-old girl who murdered a Pakistani immigrant gets only six years in juvenile detention, The Blaze reports. . .

Great strides in family entertainment. Disney will reprise its children's Proud Family show about two homosexual men and their adopted gay boy. In real life the actors are raising a 14-year-old boy Entertainment Weekly calls “a social activist.” In the animated show, the child's voice will that of a Black Lives Matter supporter who last year dropped the f-bomb in accusing President Trump of trying to start a race war. . .

When Edith ran the country. That photo of Jill Biden sitting at the presidential desk aboard Air Force 1 prepping for the G7 summit reminds us of an earlier era when Edith Wilson secretly ran the country. Woodrow Wilson was incapacitated, and not even Vice President Thomas R. Marshall knew that Edith was running the show. Sound familiar? See the photo at Red State.

Quotes for today

“Fauci's cost-benefit calculation: You absorb the cost, he benefits”
– headline at The Federalist

“In Florida, girls are going to play girls’ sports and boys are going to play boys’ sports”
– Gov. Ron DeSantis, signing Florida's “Fairness in Women's Sports Act”

“This bill is very simply about making sure that women can safely compete, have opportunities and physically be able to excel in a sport that they trained for, prepared for and work for.”
– Sen. Kelli Stargel, Republican of Lakeland, the bill's sponsor