Дональд Трамп - Triggered

The more the media spin stories like Jussie’s to the public, the more the left, starving for anything to fuel their hatred, believes that hate crime is rampant, leading to more erroneous reports of hate crimes and fake hate crimes. Around and around it goes.

It’s not as if fake hate crimes are victimless. They increase distrust and hysteria in communities, add gasoline to an already flaming political divide, instill hate into people who previously had none, and distract police from doing their jobs, which includes saving lives. Here’s just a percentage of what Smollett cost his city. Chicago police put twenty-four detectives on the case. They worked one thousand hours, not including overtime. They executed fifty search warrants and watched dozens of hours of surveillance tape. Now, it’s not as though the cops in Chicago have nothing else to do. During that January, one of the coldest on record, twenty people were murdered. The angry Eddie Johnson, the superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, called Smollett’s alleged stunt “shameful.”

“I just wish the families of gun violence in this city got this much attention,” he said, “because that’s who really deserves [it].”

The left in this country has become so radical, so intent on proving that cops and Republicans are evil while people of color and members of the LGBT community can do no wrong, that it is refusing to accept what is right in front of them. To be a member of the Democrat Party in 2019, you have to deny evidence of all kinds. As George Orwell wrote in 1984 , “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Of course, the Democrats would be nothing without the mainstream media, their all-purpose PR operation. The media are the vehicle through which all the identity-politics craziness gets out onto the airwaves. The Jussie Smollett case was a prime example. On February 24, after the whole thing had been revealed as a hoax, Jonathan Capehart, a columnist for the Washington Post who suffers from a serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, went on MSNBC and argued that, yes, although Jussie had faked the whole thing, it was Donald Trump’s fault that everyone had fallen for it. I’m not making that up. “The president actually stokes the atmosphere of menace and insecurity that millions of Americans feel across this country,” he said, not joking at all. “There are people in this country who every day feel that their very existence—their own security is at stake. And so, you know, the president’s superpac, right-wingers, far right, conservatives who are using the Jussie Smollett situation to rhetorically bash people who are afraid for their own existence and their own lives… is really despicable.”

So hold on. Jussie creates a fake hate crime and tries to blame my father for it, and it’s… my father’s fault?

Look, I don’t know what part of the universe the guy lives in, but down here in the United States, things just aren’t that bleak anymore. By almost every measure imaginable, life for people who claim to “feel that their very existence is at stake” has only gotten better over the past fifty years. Their quality of life has improved. High school graduation rates for racial minorities have soared. Unemployment among African Americans is at its lowest levels in the history of this country. DJT has implemented prison reform and pushed through opportunity zone legislation to help those he apparently discriminates against. And there are no bands of insane racists roving the streets looking for minorities to beat up. There certainly aren’t racist Trump supporters looking to assault people just for being who they are. But it is better for Democrats, whose entire platform relies on calling the other side of the aisle a bunch of racists, if voters believe that the world is a scary and racist place. Those people are so triggered by the current president that they will believe anything.

In an ideal world, as laid out by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., people would be judged based on the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Operating on that belief, we managed to pass the most sweeping civil rights legislation in the history of the world, improve conditions for all races, and begin to heal the divide between black and white people in this country. Now people who claim to share Dr. King’s vision of the world are asking us to go backward, to pay more attention to the color of everyone’s skin and less attention to the content of their character. They’re claiming that knowledge can come only from being born a certain color or with a particular sexual orientation and that no one can understand anyone else just by sitting down and talking to them. This takes away what makes us human, and we need to move away from it.

Accepting Jussie Smollett’s view of the world, where getting beaten up by racists makes you cool—or could perhaps add more pay to your already lucrative acting salary—and the whole world is just one big scary place where evil racists go on the prowl for innocent victims, would be a huge step backward for society. Some days, I worry that we have already taken a big backward step. Think, for example, about how easy it would have been for Smollett to get away with perpetrating his little hoax. All he would have had to do was clean it up a little bit, maybe lose the noose and the bleach or do some better planning before the event, and people would have bought it. What concerns me about the case isn’t that a liberal is getting away with a crime. (As I write this, the city of Chicago is in the process of appointing a special prosecutor who might take care of that.) What concerns me is that the whole liberal world was more than willing to take Smollett at his word despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary.

Liberals have become so deluded in their hatred of my father that they’ll latch onto any story that makes him look bad, even a story as phony as Jussie Smollett’s. But the kind of hatred that Smollett was trying to create has no basis in reality. That’s why he had to pay people to act it out.

So, Jussie, I’d like to personally thank you for bringing this all to light and for this indirect contribution to Trump 2020. Jussie, you’re the best, and, as it’s been said, I hope you’re not beating yourself up over it—AGAIN!

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JOE CHINA

ABOUT THREE YEARS AFTER I had the discussion with Rusty, the union carpenter in Wisconsin, Joe Biden visited a union job site a few miles down the road as part of the kickoff of his 2020 presidential primary campaign. Apparently, he had stopped into a Delaware union hall one time in, like, 1984 to use the bathroom, and now he was acting as though the organized labor vote should be all his. Truth is, he has no claim on the union vote. None at all. He makes a big deal about growing up in the blue-collar town of Scranton, but from what I heard, he didn’t have it all that hard. His father ran a car dealership in Delaware and before that had owned an airport and crop-dusting service on Long Island. He was also an executive in a chemical company during the war. Joe went to prep school, just as I did. He’s had his fingernails manicured since he was elected to the US Senate, and that was back when Nixon was president. I’m not saying he isn’t good with his hands; he’s just not fond of using them for work. Judging from the legislation he’s supported—NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement—it doesn’t seem as though he’s all that found of workers, either.

But his kind of arrogance, purporting to be a regular Joe while actively working against labor, shouldn’t be surprising to you. In fact, it’s perfectly consistent with the Democrat platform. Despite what they’ve done (or haven’t done) politically over the past two decades and the disastrous policies they’ve enacted, politicians on the left seem to think they’re entitled to votes based on who they are. We’re the Democrat Party , they’ll say. Vote for anyone else, and you’re for the one percent or a racist!