George Rebane

The attack on Georgia’s new voter law is turning out to be a national disgrace.  The evidence is clear – it is not the launch of Jim Crow 2.0, neither does is suppress black voter turnout.  As many have shown, in the 40 states that have similar election laws, the ratios of black voter turnouts have been higher than those of white voters.  Yet the Biden administration is doubling down on their Big Lie about Georgia, with all of it being picked up and echoed by the lamestream.  Most revealing is how the corporatist CEOs are falling in line to support the leftwing narrative.  As always, the Democrats’ African-American constituents don’t have a clue about any of this, and continue their plantation lives blaming the whole thing on ‘racism’ and ‘white supremacy’.  

JFK was elected on an historical Big Lie – the non-existent 1960 “missile gap”.  In fact, the missile gap did exist, as subsequent post-USSR revelations attest, but was definitely in favor of the US.  Nikita Khrushchev had very few long-range ballistic missiles that could hit North American targets, and for that reason he got Castro to permit him to secretly station Soviet mid-range nuclear missiles in Cuba.  As history has shown, it was basically dumb luck that kept the world from a global nuclear exchange, and not anything that Kennedy and his military planners did back in October 1962.  (more here)  LBJ followed suit four years later with his own Big Lie about the Gulf of Tonkin ‘attack’ that got us bigtime into Vietnam.  The upshot of Vietnam was Jimmy Carter’s military standdown that invited Brezhnev into starting WW3 in Europe.  The Soviet leaders knew that the USSR economy was on its last legs in being able to maintain par force with America and NATO; for the communists in 1980 it was now or never.  And it was Reagan who convinced Brezhnev and then Gorbachev that ‘never’ was their best option.

The Left's response to the above Big Lies is to point at Bush2 getting us to invade Iraq after 9/11 because Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.  That was true because Saddam used his Soviet-era WMDs on his own people.  There are a number of explanations as to why none were found when the Americans finally got to search the country.  (e.g. where did Syria subsequently and suddenly get the WMDs to use on its people?)  But Bush2 didn't tell a Big Lie, because both our and EU intelligence sources confirmed the existence of Iraq's WMDs, and all western leaders accepted that report even if they all didn't agree on how to respond.  This debate continues to this day.

[12apr21 update]  Biden one-ups Obama’s “fundamental transformation” with his insane program to erase America as we know it.  Kevin McCullough writes (here) – “He’s attempting to undo American accountability in elections through his support of HR1. He’s attempting to undo our economic foundations with massive printing (read that: devaluing) of our currency. He’s attempting to destroy free enterprise and job growth with coming massive tax increases. He’s attempting to take away individual liberties with proposed mask mandates, and desired lockdowns. He supports any attempt to end the Senate filibuster—in order to push through horrific laws by the thinnest margins ever attempted. He’s attempting to overwhelm our security at our borders by encouraging 100’s of 1000’s of unverifiable persons of unknown origins to cross our borders without scrutiny nor penalty. He wants the police weakened. He is pledging to take guns away from law abiding owners. And he wants to pervert the justice system so dramatically that the Constitution becomes unrecognizable.”

[14apr21 update]  The typo in my ‘Farewell Unity’ column in the 2apr21 Union continues to draw the ire of local liberals, most recently today’s letter from a Ms Rachel Howard (here).  I had already posted the correction in these pages and on Union’s online edition, but that has made no never mind to our progressive neighbors.  What really needs pointing out repeatedly and often is how the Left responds to analyses like mine regarding the tragic condition of our national unity – Ex uno pluria.  For most of them, understanding that the first step toward a common ground that can launch a productive conversation requires understanding each other’s desiderata for our country’s future, this is an intellectual bridge too far.  Anyone who posits such a requirement by identifying potential targets of a transformed America is immediately vilified for, of all things, seeking to sow the seeds of disunity.

[17apr21 update]  Here’s a hit to The Union for bending over backward to tolerate broad-based bullshit, no matter how off-the-wall it is.  ‘Cancel culture and voting rights’ by Richard Stormsgaard gives us this sample – “Reagan ridiculed the concept of good government as advocated by Lincoln and Eisenhower. Gingrich wanted to flush government down the tub. Steve Bannon, Trump’s senior adviser, advocated blowing up all of society. And by 2018, Donald Trump regularly attacked national security and military leaders for resisting his efforts to subdue all branches of government to his personal whims. … In all other Western liberal democracies, conservatives, liberals and laborites generally pursued the common good from their different perspectives, as was the case in the United States prior to the Reagan revolution.”  The remainder of his outpouring is an equal barrage of partisan allegation free of a single supporting statement that would give some substance to his naked claims.  And then there’s the revelation by another leftwing worthy, Jon Schwarz, telling his followers (here) that we’ve had it all wrong about which side enforces political correctness.  All along it’s really been the Republican Party and the Right.  I guess we’ve had a hard time seeing it through the lying lens of their lamestream media that continues denying the daily proto-Marxist machinations of the Democratic Party whose constiuents pull down historical statues, riot, loot and burn, and erase the names and history that don’t measure up to their narrative – i.e. political correctness.  Examples from the Right seem to be missing.

Corrupt climate change calamities.  Working separately, two prominent climate scientists have again assembled a considerable amount of science to expose the history of global warming hysteria, and its current expansion on steroids promoted and pushed by Biden Big Lie Machine.  I’m cobbling together the recent writings of Drs Steven Koonin of Caltech and Richard Lindzen of MIT.  Climate change was becoming a bit long of tooth as the raison d’etre for fundamentally transforming America into a socialist autocracy.  Along came Covid, a godsend on steroids for the Left’s command/control central planners.  But now those damn vaccines are making the people have wrong ideas again about risk and their freedoms, so it’s time to crank up the global warming catastrophe again.  The works of Koonin and Lindzen are timely calmatives that will be fiercely attacked in the lamestream and by every Democrat politician who can find a mic.