News And Views Is Back

RINOS, Ebola and mass shooters, oh my, it’s time for more News and Views.

NEWS: Anti-Trump Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky went down in flames, by 10 percentage points or so in a primary election Tuesday.

VIEWS: President Trump bagged another RINO (Republican In Name Only) when Massie (which rhymes with Assie) lost BIGLY in that primary vote. An incumbent not even being able to get his party’s nomination to run again speaks to the discontent with Massie, who voted against Trump often, including on such foundational issues as stopping illegal immigration. Usual leftist media suspects such as The Beast, had headlined how Trump confidant Stephen Miller “melts down” in “crazed video rant” against Massie. The Beast gave Massie a pass on apparently anti-semitic remarks, both before the election and after when he suggested he had to call Tel Aviv to concede to his opponent. Don’t let the door hit you on your Massie on the way out, Tom. Maybe the Democrats will have you. Not likely now that you are soon to be a mouth without a platform.

NEWS: Bill Cassidy, the Senator from Louisiana, and would-be Georgia Governor Brad Raffensberger also lost in Republican primaries, each finishing a distant third.

VIEWS: Two more RINOs in the bag for Trump, but despite what you might hear, this is not an endangered species. When Trump talks of draining The Swamp, he isn’t only referring to Democrats. There are reports Republicans gave the defeated Cassidy a standing ovation at a “closed lunch.” I guess the door was not closed tightly enough, because word leaked out. As for Raffensberger, he was, shall we say, a Democrat tool in making sure the Georgia election returns in 2020 didn’t get too close a look. Now, if only Trump could take out more RINOs, including, but not limited to, John Thune, John Cornyn, Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, etc., etc. etc.

NEWS: A shooting at a San Diego mosque resulted in five deaths.

VIEWS: Consider for a moment, the slapdash reporting on this incident, in which two individuals are alleged to have killed three at the mosque, then killed themselves in a typically gutless manner. Almost immediately terms such as “Islamophobia,” “white supremacy,” “right-wing extremism” were trotted out of the LameStream media locker to spin coverage. Yet, a report in the New York Post cites a supposed manifesto cobbled up by these two alleged killers, in which they are equal opportunity in expressing hatred for Trump, liberals, homosexuals, Jews and women. Given that lengthy list, we get Islamophobia topping the chart as the perceived motive? Just because a mass killer shoots people at a school, does that make him/her/it school-phobic? An interesting aside, the internet is flooded with assorted pictures of one alleged shooter, Cain Clark. Interesting first-name choice by parents in view of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, Cain having killed his brother, Abel. But, I digress. Clark seems to be white, although in one photo he does sport a cornrow hairstyle. But, what of the other alleged shooter? Begin with his surname, for which I have seen with various spellings of “Vazquez,” “Vasquez,” and “Velasquez.” And photos of Caleb V-something have been tough to dredge up. As I wrote this, I took another stab and found a supposed picture. I’m confident in saying Caleb is not white, as his last name – any spelling – would suggest to be the case. Did media just run with photos of the supposed white guy suspect and ignore the Hispanic-looking one to shape the narrative?

NEWS: An American doctor has contracted Ebola and may not survive, according to one headline.

VIEWS: The World Health Organization, and sympathetic leftists in these United States, ran hantavirus up the flag pole hoping to gin up another COVID-style lockdown/panic/over-reaction, but not enough saluted in Pavlovian fashion by donning masks, demanding to work from home, and avoiding public events. When that didn’t work, enter Ebola. This is, after all, an election year, and we have to build a case for increasing the amount of easily falsified mail-in ballots. That American doctor, by the way, is said to have gotten his Ebola dose while operating on a patient in the Congo. Again, we now are expected to put on ineffective masks, stay home and generally grind life to a halt. Or, we use the pragmatic solution of President Trump, banning travel here from the Congo, South Sudan and Uganda. Sitting in backward Southmont, with no plans to travel to third-world African countries, I see no need to worry about Ebola. But, I’m sure some acquaintances are digging out their masks and feverishly – pun intended – searching for places to run to in order to obtain rushed, likely ineffective, vaccines. I just shake my head.