Yes, he actually asked this question to his audience yesterday (8/31) in Pittsburgh on his first “campaign stop” rally since emerging from his basement.

The words “audience” for his “rally” need to be in sarcasm quotes, as only a few dozen people showed up along with seven reporters.  How pathetic can you get?

Joe Biden is in the Catch-22 of his political career. If he stays in his basement, he faces the legitimate question of whether he’s fit — both physically and mentally — to assume the duties of the presidency. If he hits the campaign trail, he runs the risk of… Pittsburgh.

The latter wasn’t a pretty sight. At all. Put another way, Joe had a very bad day in Pittsburgh. A really bad day. And social media on both sides knows it.

In February, New York was the world’s most dynamic metropolis. By August, the city was more like the ruins of Ephesus. It is not all that hard to blow up a culture. You can do it in a summer if you haven’t much worry about others.

When you loot and burn a Target in an hour, it takes months to realize there are no more neighborhood Target-stocked groceries, toilet paper, and Advil to buy this winter.

You can in a night assault the police, spit at them, hope to infect them with the coronavirus, and even burn them alive. But when you call 911 in a few weeks after your car is vandalized, your wallet is stolen, and your spouse is violent, and no one comes, only then do you sense that you earlier were voting for a pre-civilized wilderness.

And that wilderness can come in a blink of history’s eye.

“Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is going to drag out and, eventually, I do believe he will win, if we don’t give an inch and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is.”

Everyone who heard Hillary say this understood it was the opening salvo in a plan to attack the integrity of the 2020 election.

On Wednesday (9/01), Axios reported on the next phase in destabilizing the American elections.

We’ve just been given a preview of coming attractions.

I used to love New York City. There was so much to do and see, but if one were from the heartland like me, one could be perfectly content to just walk the streets and look at architecture and people.

One might seek out venues one had seen in the movies, such as in Woody Allen’s Manhattan; perhaps Elaine’s. And when one got weary from walking, one could sit down at one of two major opera houses. And after a performance one might grab a beer at P.J. Clark’s across the street from the Met and muse about what a wonderful city one was visiting, where the Bronx is up and the Battery’s down.

It really was a helluva town.  Tragically, I used to love New York City, but there’s not much left to love. In fact, many are saying the city is dead and isn’t coming back.

I call it the COVID Con.  Last Wednesday (8/26), CDC issued its latest Coronavirus Disease Update.  What you see above is Table 3 on Comorbidities.  Don’t lose your mind or temper when you read: ”For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.”

It lists the total number of deaths “involving” Covid-19 as 161,392.  6% of that is 9,684 – since February.  Add up all the deaths under 55 – 13,300 – 6% is 798 in the last six-plus months.  To compound the farce: “For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”

Most of those dying with the Chinese Flu didn’t have just one serious underlying medical condition, like diabetes or obesity – they had two or more, diabetes and a respiratory disease, obesity and kidney failure, hypertension and heart disease or some other life-threatening combo.  These were very sick people to begin with.

And we’re learning this now?

You know the sardonic reassurance:  “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”  Well now, that’s if they ever show up at all.

It’s increasingly clear to the average American that if riots come to your neighborhood, you’re on your own.

Consequently, as violence appears to surge in America's cities, millions of Americans have become first-time gun owners.  Call it the riots’ silver lining.

If you haven't read de Tocqueville's history of the French Revolution, this would be a good time to do so.  If you think that it was a revolt of the peasants against the aristocrats and royalty, you are in for a surprise.  That was the public relations; the real result was massive centralization of government powers.  As one Amazon reviewer comments:

“If you are wondering what is happening in the year 2020 with all of its chaos this book, written in the 1800s about the French Revolution and all of the tyranny and terror that it produced, is like reading a present day news cast.”

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