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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Trump’s Real Record on Race

 

As president, Trump pardoned Alice Williams, an African-American grandmother and first-time offender convicted on a nonviolent drug offense. Ms. Williams had received life in prison, under Biden’s 1994 crime bill, which disproportionately imprisoned black Americans for nonviolent offenses.

Even Democrat Van Jones, the leftist, African-American CNN pundit and prison-reform advocate, effusively praised Trump, calling the First Step Act a “Christmas miracle.”

Another Trump accomplishment ignored by Obama-Biden? Aid to black colleges.

Trump provided a substantial financial bailout to the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), again, something that Obama-Biden ignored.

In the Economist on September 19, 2020, Kentucky State University President, M. Christopher Brown said that President Trump “has been beating the drum on HBCUs as a cornerstone of his education platform from month one of his time in office.”

Chrichanni Watson, a minority student at Florida A&M University praised Trump in an op-ed for Breitbart. “That (HBCU support) directly impacts us, as HBCU students, and that’s something that cannot be said for the last administration… you’ve got to give the man some credit.”

Trump gives money and Wall Street real estate to Operation Rainbow, files a lawsuit to protect blacks and Jews in Florida, then as President, passes prison reform and bails out HBCUs, and he’s a racist? A “white supremacist?”

But let’s examine another part of the record: Trump’s multiple “disavowing” statements, responding to questions about racism, relit without end from the leftist media.

  • March 3, 2016, GOP Primary debate: Trump says, “I totally disavow the Ku Klux Klan. I totally disavow David Duke.”
  • March 6, 2016, Face the Nation: “I reject David Duke, …. I rejected the Ku Klux Klan; from the time I was five years old.”
  • August 15, 2017, commenting on Charlottesville immediately after saying they were “very fine people on both sides,” referring to the legitimate debate about confederate statues, Trump added “and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalistsbecause they should be condemned totally.”
  • October 1, 2020, Fox News: “I condemn all white supremacists, I condemn the Proud Boys. I don’t know much about the Proud Boys, but I condemn that.”

Facts matter.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. 93% vs. 94% vs. 99.9% : A Tale of 3 Numbers, but Really 2

 

From American Thinker:

Michelle’s (Ms. Obama) argument rests on the claim that 93% of the Black Lives Matter protests across American were peaceful. Playing this numbers game ignores that not all protests are created equal.

It doesn’t matter that a march in Marin County or Cape Cod was polite. What matters is that the 7% of violent protests (with blacks and whites participating with equal enthusiasm) resulted in $2 billion in losses from looting, vandalism, and arson. And that doesn’t even count the lives lost.

What matters is that the black community in Minneapolis may never recover. (South Los Angeles still hasn’t recovered from capital flight following the 1992 Rodney King riots.) It matters that Chicago has a $1.2-billion budget deficit from lockdowns and looting. And tiny Kenosha saw its business district reduced to smoldering ruins in a matter of days. Lastly, Michelle’s misleading statistic ignores the many lives lost during the rioting.

There’s a reason Michelle is telling lies to attack Trump as a racist. The Blexit movement, led by rising stars like Brandon Tatum, Candace Owens, and stalwart conservatives like Larry Elder and Thomas Sowell, is breaking through to blacks. As of October 1, 15% of blacks supported Trump (as did 36.5% of Hispanics).

Why would Michelle Obama run a 24-minute ad lecturing Americans how BLM is peaceful and anyone who criticizes rioting is racist?

Why is she playing the race card?

Why does anyone play the race card? It’s the only card she has and it’s a sign of desperation. Internal polls show Biden is losing support among blacks and Hispanics (hence the inclusion of “brown” people).

Do Hispanics like being called “brown?” Do Hispanics like to be clumped with “black” people in a show of solidarity?

The brown-person comment tells me that Hispanics are larger than the black community (18% vs 13% of the population) and are supporting Trump enthusiastically. Michelle is also trying to cover up divisions and tensions between black and non-black, in this case, Hispanics.

Why is Michelle campaigning for sleepy, creepy Joe? Why not Kamala? Why not Jill? Why not Barry himself?

Why 24 minutes? Who is going to listen to a 24-minute lecture that is dull, repetitive, and trite? Her senior thesis was bad enough. Christopher Hitchens said Michelle Obama’s senior thesis at Princeton was “not poorly written. That would be an understatement. Her essay was unreadable.”

Let’s compare the 93% peaceful number to COVID death rates:

For all age groups under 70, the case survival rate is over 99.7%. In operations research, that is better than six sigma.

For ages over 70, the case survival rate is over 94%.

Whether it’s 94 or 99, the COVID survival rate is greater than the 93% “peaceful riot” figure that BLM supporters cite.

However, 93% means peace and no reason to overreact, according to Michelle Obama and other people who hate America.

Yet 94% or 99% survive rate is a reason to panic and lock-down and for mask propaganda.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Losing More Friends

 

I have (or used to have) two close friends who dislike Trump. One dislikes him, the other has full-blown Trump Derangement Syndrome.

  1. My friend who lives in Santa Monica refuses to discuss BLM with me. He is not black. He is a citizen of Canada who was born in Sarajevo and has lived in California since 2003. He has Trump Derangement Syndrome.
  2. The second friend grew up in Orange County (which used to be a GOP region in California) and now lives in a suburb of Portland.

Neither one refuses to denounce the rioting of BLM and Antifa.

The Portland resident refuses to denounce the riots in the city and the useless mayor and Governor.

They say they don’t want to discuss ‘politics.’

I criticized them for being spineless and tacitly cheering on the rioters.

No response.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Quote of the Day: Pragmatic Moderate?

 

The New York Times, aka the DNC Times, calls Kamala Harris a “pragmatic moderate.” As Senator, she had the most left-wing voting record in a Senate that includes the Marxist Bernie Sanders.

The reality is Kamala Harris is a progressive opportunist. From Debra Saunders:

When former Vice President Joe Biden announced that Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., would be his running mate, a New York Times tweet labeled Harris “a pragmatic moderate.”

As someone who covered her as a San Francisco prosecutor and California attorney general, I’d say a more apt description is “progressive opportunist.”

Two controversies define her career.

First, there’s her support for San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy, which began in the 1980s as a means to reassure undocumented immigrants that they could report crimes to the police without fear of deportation.

Another black mark on Harris’ career involved a cocaine-skimming scandal in the city’s crime lab in 2010.

Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo wrote that the failure of Harris and her office “to produce information actually in its possession regarding” a retired technician’s unreliability was “a violation of the defendants’ constitutional rights.” And still, Harris ran for attorney general.

Harris wasn’t a hard-core district attorney and she wasn’t a tough-on-crime attorney general, but that didn’t stop her from getting on the Democratic ticket.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Hindsight is 20/20 in 2020?

 

The evidence we ignored:

  1. The first major outbreak in the US was a nursing home in Kirkland, WA: 40 to 50 percent of all COVID deaths have been nursing home residents
  2. Diamond Princess Cruise crew and passengers had a 20% infection rate or 80% were not susceptible: Latest research has shown that about 80% of the population has ‘natural’ immunity or defenses

We had the data — our brilliant governors chose to ignore it instead fixating on media response and egregiously incorrect projections and grossly flawed models and assumptions.

Most self-proclaimed experts are wrong because they emphasize theory over empiricism.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. What Is Flattening the Curve?

 

I had a mini debate/discussion with my neighbor yesterday.

I mentioned that the original goal of lockdown was to flatten the curve.

His response: what is flattening the curve?

I didn’t respond because he had to leave and I didn’t have the energy to explain something. I also didn’t think I could have a productive conversation with someone who doesn’t understand “flatten the curve.” What’s the point?

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Flatten the Curve… or So We Were Told

 

Let’s not lose sight of the original objective. We were told the objective was to flatten the curve so as not to ‘overwhelm’ hospitals. Fine. The objective was never to eradicate the virus. In fact, we wanted to prolong the life of the virus so we could ‘flatten’ the curve.

According to the IHME, the worst is over in NY.

California is supposed to reach peak deaths on April 15.

Once a state is past its peak, shouldn’t we lift the quarantine?

Some people will say if we lift the quarantine then the rate of transmission and infection will increase. That may be true but that is a drawback or tradeoff of ‘flattening the curve.’

Are hospitals overwhelmed? No, not even in NY.

Is there a ventilator shortage? No, not even in NY.

Has hydroxychloroquine demonstrated utility? Yes, even in NY.

NY which has 13x deaths than in California has a quarantine until April 30 while California has extended it quarantine to May 15. This makes very little sense in terms of economics and epidemiology.

Let’s stop this nonsense before the contagion of absurdity gets worse.

The curve is flat.

End of story.

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