The Black Lives Matter movement, during its two eras of triumph (after Ferguson and after George Floyd), helped get huge numbers of extra blacks killed in two different ways: homicides and motor vehicle accidents.
(For the record, about 1,297 whites were also lynched in the same period).
During the Ferguson Effect, black homicide deaths increased 27% from 2014 to 2016 and black motor vehicle deaths were up 24%. During the Floyd Effect, black homicide victimizations surged 44% from 2019 to 2021 and car crash deaths were up 39%.
Overall, black Deaths of Exuberance were more than 10,000 lives more in 2021 than in 2014. Just in 2021 alone, the 10,353 incremental black homicide and auto accident deaths were three times than the vastly publicized 3,446 lynching deaths of all blacks in all American history.
But virtually nobody knows this. The media won’t publish the two graphs together. It simply doesn’t fit with our era’s naïve worship of Diversity.
This is the big one. The Economic Policy is the distinct and singular policy at the core of Make America Great Again. The MAGA coalition is centered around the principles of America-First economics, and Ron DeSantis has just admitted he does not support them.
CTH has long warned about Ron DeSantis economic policy being driven by the donors who fund him. When he was in congress DeSantis voted in support of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for President Obama, and DeSantis voted in support of the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement (TPA).
These are the trade policies supported by the Club for Growth who was congressman DeSantis biggest funder. The Club for Growth also held the pre-announcement donor fundraiser in February of this year in support of DeSantis ’24.
The Wall Street billionaire, hedge fund, multinational corporate alliance that assembles at Sea Island and funds Ron DeSantis are fully against America-First trade and economic policies. DeSantis has just made an admission of his alignment with that corporate “globalist” outlook to a private confab of donors in California.
The DeSantis campaign is in full panic and retreat mode now that his establishment position is exposed. The statements during the secret meeting were leaked.
This is an anti-Ukraine war and an anti-Europe war every bit as much as it is an anti-Russia war. US strategy appears to be full chaos & destruction till only US neocons are left standing. ABN
The difficulty for Trump’s competitors is that nothing — not even about the indictment — seems to be dragging Trump down. Trump’s polling did not appear to budge no matter how many times his rivals noted his mishandling of national secrets, after Trump pleaded not guilty to charges he kept top-secret government documents in his Palm Beach home and obstructed the government’s investigation into his possession of classified material.
“It’s like they are challenging a sitting president, and in some ways, Donald Trump is a legitimate president in the minds of many Republican primary voters,” said Christine Matthews, president of Bellwether Research, who has polled for onetime presidential aspirant and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. “That could explain why there isn’t a bounce. It’s not a completely open field. And we’re considering all these new faces who are popping in, it’s like these are challengers to an incumbent.”
In that environment, it’s become almost impossible for Trump’s opponents to break through. When Trump’s challengers did make a splash last week, it only came in response to Trump.
Danielle Smith, the current premier of Alberta in Canada, has done something remarkable. She took the bold and unprecedented step of apologizing to unvaccinated Canadians who’ve faced unfair treatment from the government throughout the “pandemic.” But Ms. Smith actually went beyond just issuing an apology, Danielle actually made a promise: anyone who was terminated from their job due to their refusal of the COVID-19 vaccine will be reinstated.
Admire and reward honest apologies, especially if there is a vow to make amends for the mistake and to not repeat it. In Buddhism, recognizing our own mistakes and apologizing and making amends for them is fundamental to spiritual growth. It is a state of mind that must be established for spiritual progress to be made. Do your best. Speak the truth. ABN
As President Donald Trump stands with his legal team to defend himself against political prosecution, his spokesperson Alina Habba delivered a statement and addressed reporters outside the federal courthouse in Miami.
Habba accurately noted the people currently in control of our government do not love this country. They are trying to tear this country apart and Donald J Trump is a tool to achieve that objective. This is their goal. This is the fundamental change they desire. Isolation, ridicule and fear are their goals as they use the weaponized power of the full governmental apparatus against their opposition. WATCH:
Keep in mind, the powers that seek to control the American political system, and ultimately the lives of every person in this nation, need the average person to feel despair, isolated and alone. Those who use weaponized power to isolate, ridicule and marginalize, need to control the mechanisms of social life in order to stop people from connecting to the majority.
We are in an abusive relationship with our government. The people running the Biden administration need to ensure the American people do not assemble against them. Every mechanism and institution are being leveraged toward that objective. When you understand that larger goal that underpins their power, you can make earnest effort to defeat this psychological war by engaging in purposeful fellowship.
As history is a guide, when the abused take to the streets, villages and hamlets, they realize they are not alone. Defeating the abuser starts first by destroying the dark imaginings of fear the abuser creates in order to retain control. Ultimately this is the purpose behind the message, ‘live your best life.‘
Let us speak to each other without pretense, guise or dishonesty. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is in the 2024 race specifically because he was told by the right wing of the UniParty apparatchik that Donald Trump would be removed from contention. The people in control of the Republican corporation – namely donors, multinational corporations, Wall St firms and Sea Island billionaires – convinced the Florida governor he would not have to run against Donald Trump.
All of the plans, strategies, schemes and operational roadmaps that followed are a direct outcome of this core tenet; Donald Trump must be removed because he cannot be defeated. Thus, we are seeing every element of the professional Republican apparatus focused on supporting that intention. Every beneficiary who operates within the financial system of Republican politics, including the financially dependent punditry, must align with that core objective. This is what we are seeing.
However, that said, those institutions, power brokers, conscripted influence agents, donors and media entities, are not able to fracture the Donald Trump support. This reality actually speaks remarkably well to the commonsense, pragmatism and general disposition of voters. Quite simply, people can see through the schemes, and there is a great awakening all around. [CBS Poll Link]
I have oft repeated that I see a 4:1 pattern, a ratio, within data that has been present ever since 2015 when Donald Trump presented himself as the touchstone of Republican and UniParty politics.
In essence, after years of Republican pretenses, Donald Trump called their bluff and said to the republican politicians, “If you really believe what you have been telling the voters, then prove it.” Subsequently, Trump put the platform that voters want in front of the Republican politicians and pundits. The rest is history. Trump exposed the lies within the Republican false advocacy and manipulation, and he put the UniParty in the spotlight. One of many examples was the GOP refusing to overturn ObamaCare.
With the ruse exposed, and with decades of lies from professional Republicans now clear to the Republican voting base, that is why the liars cannot fracture the Trump movement. Yes, boil all of the lies, pretenses, fabrications and cons down, and this is what remains. The Republican apparatus is never going to be trusted. Trump has proven his worth, and Donald Trump holds command because his core America First platform is honest and best.
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