Friday, July 31, 2020

IS THIS REALLY GOING TO WORK?

I Can't See Any Reason Why It Should

by Bob Walsh

Theoretically the Mayor of Portland, the Governor of Oregon and Donald Trump have reached a semi-agreement to withdraw (or more likely just not deploy) federal "troops" (law enforcement officers) from Portland once the locals and staties get up and running to protect federal property.  

The mayor is practically jacking off with a microphone, screaming about how he has beaten the vile Orange Man and how it was the mere presence of federal "troops" in Portland that was encouraging otherwise peaceful protesters to riot.  He seems to think that Trump is going to pull every federal law enforcement and protective services agent out of Portland pretty much overnight.  

Trump has said that the extra people will be withdrawn as soon as the locals can demonstrate that they are able and willing to do the job.

My own opinion, for what that is worth, is that within a very few days it will become apparent that the locals are unable or unwilling to do the job.

LESS THAN 100 DAYS, NOW THIS SHIT IS GETTING REAL

by Bob Walsh

We are getting into the time frame where even the NetFlix / Instant Gratification crowed will remember some stuff long enough for it to have an effect at election time.  

We are now more or less officially in a recession.   New jobless applications are spiking.  Congress is still fighting over how much money to give away to people who have been made jobless by Covid-19.  Businesses are closing, many permanently, at an increasing rate.

Some things are, however, stable.  Joe Biden came out of his bunker for a "press conference" with friendly reporters who were apparently asking pre-approved and maybe scripted questions.  Joe could not remember where he was (he was in his home town) or what year it was.  Strangely the MSM missed reporting on that.

The A. G., Bill Barr, appeared in front of congress to answer questions.  The Democraps screamed semi-questions and accusations at him (mostly accusations) and then pulled the time rug out from under him, not allowing him to answer.  He pointed out to them that he was there to answer questions under oath and it was not helpful if they refused to actually give him the time to answer questions.  The MSM, which is functionally the propaganda arm of the DNC, seemed to have other things that needed to be covered whenever the Republicans were interacting with Barr.

There is one interesting idea floating around.  Delay the election until the Covid-19 thing is over and we can get to conventional in-your-face voting.  Personally I think that is a fair idea.  I figure about four years should be enough time for the ravages of Covid-19 to withdraw from our society.

CRIMINALIZING THE BLUE CODE OF SILENCE

California Considers Strict ‘George Floyd’ Law To Punish Police Who Fail To Intervene

LAPPL News Watch
July 30, 2020

Outraged that Minneapolis officers stood by while their colleague killed George Floyd, California lawmakers are considering a tough law to punish police who fail to intervene when witnessing potential excessive force — including possible criminal charges and being banned from law enforcement.

If enacted, the proposed law would put California at the forefront of legal efforts to criminalize the “blue code of silence” that many say contributed to Floyd’s death.

But the bill, authored by Assemblyman Chris Holden (D-Pasadena), has set off a fight with law enforcement agencies around the state who contend the rule is largely redundant but places a criminal penalty on officers during situations that often involve split-second decisions.

“This misguided proposal criminalizes officers who may not have a complete understanding of the incident and have different viewpoints. Strong policies, robust training and fair discipline is far more appropriate than criminal sanctions,” said the board of directors of the Los Angeles Police Protective League in a statement.

'IF WE DON'T GET NO JUSTICE, THEN YOU DON'T GET NO SLEEP'

NYPD commissioner gets early morning visit from protesters

 

If the spike in shootings isn’t keeping NYPD commissioner Shea up at night, the protesters must be.

A group of demonstrators shined lights and blared sirens at the top cop’s W. 73rd Street home at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to video posted to social media.

“This is a raid, Commissioner Shea,” the demonstrators yelled in one clip.

“If we don’t get no justice, then you don’t get no sleep,” they continued, citing the early morning clearing out of Occupy City Hall last week.

NYPD officers, in riot gear, emptied out the remaining 60 or so City Hall protesters around 3:40 a.m. on Friday. Seven people were taken into custody, with one facing a charge for throwing a brick at an officer.

A 28-year-old college student told The Post the ordeal lasted about 15 to 20 minutes — but at first, he thought people were trying to clear out the building because of a fire.

“They had a loudspeaker they said ‘wake up wake up,” said the student, who did not provide his name. “I thought there was a fire but they were just screaming for this building.”

The NYPD did not immediately return a request for comment.

HIGH TIMES IN THE SQUAD CAR

Two female NYPD officers seen smoking a hookah out of a marked patrol vehicle while in uniform

 

LEO Affairs 

July 29, 2020

 

Video is emerging online of two uniformed female NYPD officers smoking a hookah out of a marked patrol vehicle.    


It’s not known whether the officers were on break.

Footage of the smoke break has since gone viral on multiple social media platforms.

Without digging into NYPD policies, it’s generally prohibited or discouraged for uniformed law enforcement officers to smoke in public while in uniform.

Smoking a hookah out of a marked unit is also probably a violation.

'WHETHER THE JEWISH COMMUNITY INTENDS TO BE OPPRESSIVE OR NOT, THAT'S HOW IT APPEARS TO US' BLACKS

While others pile on, some Blacks stand by Rodney Muhammad after he shares anti-Semitic meme

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The condemnation of Philadelphia NAACP President Rodney Muhammad was swift after he posted an anti-Semitic meme on Facebook last week.

State and local leaders and numerous groups have called for his resignation, saying the post was “vile” and “racist."

But the opinion in the Black community is not so unanimous.

“We have to stop being so eager to tear down our own at the behest of others,” said WURD radio host Solomon Jones.

Diving into the racially charged local issue during his Wednesday morning show, Jones admitted the caricature of a Jewish person in the post was “offensive” and accompanying quote was “wrong” — falsely attributed to Voltaire when it's more associated with a neo-Natzi and Holocaust denier. Yet Jones questioned whether Blacks were “too quick to pile on each other.”

“We have to stop being so willing to tear down Black leaders when we are not as willing to fight the battles that need to be fought on behalf of Black people,” Jones told listeners.

Michael Coard, civil rights lawyer and Philadelphia Tribune columnist, also refused to condemn Muhammad.

“I’ll never condemn the WORDS of any Black person who’s pro-Black and anti-white ‘supremacy — at least not until white people publicly condemn the ACTIONS of slavery, the Black Codes, convict leasin, sharecropping, Jim Crow, disenfranchisement, redlining, gerrymandering, police brutality, and systemic racism,” Coard tweeted on Tuesday.

The meme Muhammad shared showed photos of Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson, rapper Ice Cube and TV host Nick Cannon, all of whom have recently made anti-Semitic statements. Billy Penn broke the story on Friday.

Below those photos is a caricature of a Jewish man with a large nose and a black beard, and wearing a yarmulke. That image is imposed on an arm sleeve above a hand — wearing what appears to be a large diamond — pressing down on a pile of bodies.

Written under the photos is a quote misattributed to the French writer and philosopher Voltaire; in fact, the quote is more commonly attributed to white nationalist and Holocaust denier Kevin Alfred Strom.

Muhammad, who has led the Philadelphia NAACP since 2014, said in a released statement on Thursday that he was not anti-Semitic and removed the post after learning it "bared significant offense to the Jewish community."

While Muhammad said he does "regret the insult, pain and offense it caused to all particularly those of the Jewish community by this unfortunate episode," he did not formally apologize for posting the meme.

Muhammad said the organization's aim was now to engage in "thoughtful, meaningful, and we hope productive dialogue between our communities."

Muhammad is a long-time Democratic consultant for Mayor Jim Kenney. The Kenney campaign has paid Muhammad more than $95,000 over the years for consulting services.

Gov. Tom Wolf tweeted that Muhammad's social media post was "vile.” Wolf and Attorney General Josh Shapiro joined the growing calls for Muhammad to resign.

A clutch of state officials, and leaders of the NAACP PA State Conference, Philadelphia Urban League, the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, the Anti-Defamation League, among others, all denounced Muhammad's social media post and racism and anti-Semitism on Tuesday.

The Rev. Kenneth Huston, president of the Pennsylvania conference of the NAACP, said on Tuesday that he was in contact with the national NAACP leadership about Muhammad’s post.

However, Greg Brinkley, former president of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Action Network, continued to back Muhammad.

Brinkley said Muhammad has stood up for all people as a civil rights leader throughout his career. It was unfair, Brinkley said, that Muhammad was being attacked for criticizing the Jewish community.

“Whether the Jewish community intends to be oppressive or not, that’s how it appears to us,” Brinkley said.

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal, board secretary of the local NAACP, said on Jones' show on Wednesday that Muhammad should remain at his post and condemned the opportunism of political leaders who were calling for his ouster.

“They don’t get out here and fight against nobody unless it’s their political season for them to do so because they don’t do anything else any other time. And yet they’re going to call for somebody to resign?” she said on Jones' show.

Bilal emphasized that Muhammad was wrong to repost the meme. But she believed that Black people were held to a different standard.

“It almost reminds me of everyday Black people, when we make a mistake, that when we fall down, that everybody piles on or we forever are banished to the world of na-na or beyond because we make a mistake,” she said during Jones' show.

Civil rights activist Asa Khalif tweeted on Wednesday that he was ignoring media who contact him about Muhammad and questioned why they were not more interested in the police killings of Black people.

“Attention members of the press..please stop contacting me regarding Rodney Muhammad’s comments..if your call is not about David Jones, Nizah Morris, Brandon Tate Brown and other black & brown people murdered by police in philly [sic]..keep it moving. Thanks #BlackLivesMatter,” Khalif tweeted.

ECONOMIC WIPEOUT

America's economy shrank by a record-breaking 33% in last three months in biggest slump EVER as coronavirus takes unprecedented toll

 

Daily Mail

July 30. 2020

 

The U.S. economy shrank at a dizzying 33% annual rate in the April-June quarter - by far the worst quarterly plunge ever - as coronavirus shut down businesses, throwing tens of millions out of work and sending unemployment surging to 14.7%, the government said Thursday. 

 

The Commerce Department's estimate of the second-quarter decline in the gross domestic product, the total output of goods and services, marked the sharpest such drop on records dating to 1947. The previous worst quarterly contraction, a 10% drop, occurred in 1958 during the Eisenhower administration. 

 

Last quarter's drop followed a 5% fall in the January-March quarter, during which the economy officially entered a recession triggered by the virus, ending an 11-year economic expansion, the longest on record in the United States. 

 

The figures are potentially devastating to Donald Trump's re-election - and came from the three months which included his re-opening push and claiming the U.S. was entering a 'transition to greatness.' 

 

In a second blow, weekly jobless statistics shows showed 1.4 million new unemployment claims - the second week in a row they have gone up.  

TRUMP'S SLIDE IN THE POLLS IS MISLEADING

Facing re-election, the American president is now at the most critical juncture in his political life

 

By Erez Linn

 

Israel Hayom

July 30, 2020

 

It is safe to assume that the first thing President Donald Trump says to his advisers every morning is, "How am I doing in Florida?".

For the past several decades, the Sunshine State has served as the microcosm of the US, a refined version of all the battles and fragmentations across the nation: Left vs. Right, ethnic minorities vs. whites, old vs. young, urban vs. rural.

As such, it has become the Holy Grail of American politics, the ultimate tossup state that can decide an election (as it famously did in 2000). In recent days former Vice President Joe Biden, who will become the official Democratic presidential nominee in late August, has been opening up a sizable lead in Florida against the 45th president.

A recent CNN poll has had him with a 5 percentage point advantage over Trump; a Quinnipiac University poll has put him 13 points ahead of the incumbent president. Biden has also been leading or tying with the president in other key battleground states, including states that gave Trump their electoral votes in 2016.

The polls can't tell us anything about what is going to unfold on Election Day, but they do tell us that there is a key segment in the electorate that has no enthusiasm either for Trump or for Biden.

You can call those in this segment "Disaffected Trump voters" or "Curious would-be Biden voters." It's hard to tell how big this group will be on November 3. Judging from past elections, it would be wrong to read too much into their current preferences: Practically every election campaign sees the non-incumbent party shoot up in the polls during the summer months because of undecided voters who temporarily park their support with the new face.

In 1988, then-Governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis led by several dozen points in the polls after winning the Democratic nomination in the summer but then lost to then-Vice President George Bush in the fall. In the summer of 1992, a third-party candidate that emerged from nowhere, businessman Ross Perot, was ahead in the polls against both the president (Bush) and his Democratic challenger, then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. But several months later, on Election Day, Perot failed to win a single electoral vote.

Looking at the polls, Trump knows that voters are sending him a message. They want him to earn his second term through hard work. What's particularly concerning for the president is that this sentiment is prevalent among the very coalition that handed him victory four years ago: the suburban middle class, the independent anti-establishment voters, and the blue-collar whites.

The latest AP poll showed that 80% of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. This is the highest this figure has been since Trump has taken office. In some respects, you can say that Trump is now at the most critical juncture in his political life. For the first time since entering politics, voters are no longer captivated by who he his, and are flirting with a Biden presidency.

To change this dynamic, Trump has recently adopted a more statesmen-like posture and reinstated the daily coronavirus press conferences. He has even begun to wear a face mask to lead by example. Meanwhile, he has also tried to tap the full potential of the Republican base by casting himself as "America's Sheriff" who can crack down on violent protesters.

But he knows, judging from sentiment emerging from the AP poll, that he must also offer hope in his campaign, just like he brilliantly did in 2016. The American people have one big hope right now: to get back to pre-pandemic normalcy. This is why it is incumbent upon Trump to reinvent himself now, before it is too late.

Thursday, July 30, 2020

A COMPLETE NUTJOB ..... AND TRUMP BELIEVES HER

Trump Doubles Down on Demon Sperm Doc

 

By Will Sommer and Adam Rawnsley

 

Daily Beast

July 28, 2020

 

The President of the United States doubled down on his support of a doctors “summit” peddling the debunked COVID-19 drug hydroxychloroquine—just as social media companies crack down on the viral coronavirus disinformation that came out of the event.

Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube removed a viral video of the event which had garnered millions of views after President Trump and others retweeted the clip. SquareSpace also suspended the website for America’s Frontline Doctors, which put on the event. The video featuring the eccentric Dr. Stella Immanuel, who claimed that the controversial anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine was a “cure” for COVID-19 and that masks aren’t necessary, was pulled from the platforms for sharing misinformation about the disease. Twitter also briefly locked the Twitter account of the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., when he tweeted the video and called it a “must watch!!!”

The viral video, which racked up more than 13 million views on Facebook, drew more attention to some of Immanuel’s more bizarre previous medical claims. The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that Immanuel has claimed in the past that some gynecological ailments are caused by people having sex in a dream-world with demons, with the demonic semen as the origins of the afflictions.

Immanuel has also claimed that doctors used alien DNA in medical treatments, and that lizard-like “reptilian” aliens are involved in the United States government. She thanked The Daily Beast on Tuesday for “summarizing” her work. “The Daily Beast did a great job summarizing our deliverance ministry and exposing incubus and succubus. Thank you daily beast. If you need deliverance from these spirits. Contact us,” she tweeted.

But she has refused to provide proof of her claim that she’s cured hundreds of COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine.

That didn’t chasten Trump, however, who praised Immanuel and her fellow Frontline Doctors at a Tuesday afternoon press conference. “I can tell you this, she was on air along with many other doctors,” he said. “They were big fans of hydroxychloroquine and I thought she was very impressive in the sense that from where she came, I don't know which country she comes from, but she said that she's had tremendous success with hundreds of different patients, and I thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her.”

“For some reason the internet wanted to take them down and took them off,” Trump said of the group. “I guess Twitter took them off and I think Facebook took them off. I don't know why I think they're very respected doctors.”

Trump then described a woman, apparently Immanuel, as "spectacular" in her statements about hydroxychloroquine.

“I don't know why they took her off, but they took her off, maybe they had a good reason, maybe they didn't, I don't know,” Trump said.

As one reporter pressed Trump about masks, the president curtly stormed out of the briefing room.

The backers of America’s Frontline Doctors and their White Coat Summit went even further than praise. Immanuel’s bizarre statements and the content removals have prompted their allies to double down.

Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, which helped organize the doctors summit, retweeted Immanuel’s complaints that she and other participants were being “attacked, ridiculed and discredited” in the wake of the event.

“Doctors are being silenced by Big Tech,” Martin tweeted. “The leftist media don't want hydroxychloroquine to work because it will mean President @realDonaldTrump was right!”

Dr. Simone Gold, the leader of the America’s Frontline Doctors group which featured Dr. Immanuel, took to Twitter to criticize social media companies for “censoring Physicians from speaking about COVID-19 and Hydroxychloroquine.”

Gold has become a popular pundit on the right for her controversial takes on the coronavirus pandemic. The doctor and Stanford law school graduate has endorsed the use of the Trump-approved drug hydroxychloroquine, which the FDA says is not an effective treatment for COVID-19, and is against the use of masks, calling it a “superstition.”

Before the summit, Gold worked with Tea Party Patriots to author a form letter to President Trump labeling lockdowns a “mass casualty event” and inviting Americans to ask their physicians to sign it and do an interview with Tea Party Patriots.

Gold’s admirers have also taken up the fight. She’s been a big hit on the right wing podcast circuit, doing interviews with pundits Dennis Prager, Charlie Kirk, and radio host Mark Levin. All three have since criticized the social media crackdown on content from the sumit, with Prager University republishing Immanuel’s criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Levin lashed out at The Daily Beast’s coverage of Immanuel, calling it a “vicious smear machine” for accurately quoting her previous remarks.

Breitbart, whose video about the summit was suspended by Facebook, reposted the offending clip on their front page.

Earlier in the day at another White Coat Summit event, Immanuel slammed “professional hacks” in medicine who have criticized the use of hydroxychloroquine. But she saved special vitriol for doctors who refuse to prescribe the drug because they’re supposedly afraid of professional consequences, calling them “good Germans” — a reference to Germans after World War II who claimed they had never supported the Nazis.

“You’re no different than a murderer,” Immanuel said. “You’re no different than Hitler.”
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Viral sensation Dr. Stella Immanuel says Jesus will destroy Facebook if her COVID video doesn’t go back up

 

By Karu F. Daniels

 

New York Daily News

July 28, 2020

 

Dr. Stella Immanuel blasted Facebook and Twitter after it removed her controversial video touting hydroxychloroquine as a “cure” for COVID-19.

The Houston physician, who went viral for her video, declared on Twitter that Jesus Christ would destroy Facebook’s servers if her videos weren’t restored to the platform.

“Hello Facebook put back my profile page and videos up or your computers with start crashing till you do,” she tweeted overnight. “You are not bigger that God. I promise you. If my page is not back up face book will be down in Jesus name”

In the clip, allegedly filmed during a “White Coat Summit” in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., the self-proclaimed “Deliverance Minister” stands with a group of doctors who praised hydroxychloroquine and said how masks and lockdowns are not needed to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus.


“Hello, you don’t need a mask. There is a cure,” Immanuel said in the video.

According to the Texas Medical Board, Immanuel is a licensed pediatrician — and also recognized as religious minister, who has a long history of making bizarre claims about medical topics and other controversial issues.

On Tuesday, The Daily Beast published an extensive collection of some of Immanuel’s sermons and articles posted on her website, describing them as “definitely ludicrous.”

She refers to herself as “God’s battle axe and weapon of war” and claims that medical issues like endometriosis, cysts, infertility, and impotence are caused by sex with “spirit husbands” and “spirit wives,” a phenomenon described essentially as witches and demons having sexual intercourse with people in a dreamworld.

“They turn into a woman and then they sleep with the man and collect his sperm,” Immanuel said, according to the outlet. “Then they turn into the man and they sleep with a man and deposit the sperm and reproduce more of themselves.”

“They are responsible for serious gynecological problems,” Immanuel said. “We call them all kinds of names — endometriosis, we call them molar pregnancies, we call them fibroids, we call them cysts, but most of them are evil deposits from the spirit husband,” Immanuel said in 2013. “They are responsible for miscarriages, impotence — men that can’t get it up.”

The outlet claims to have also found that in 2015 Immanuel claimed that an Illuminati plan had been concocted by “a witch” to destroy the world using abortion, gay marriage, and children’s toys.”

EDITOR'S NOTE: When Trump uses a whacko  conspiracy theorist like Immanuel to prove his unproven corona cures, he's certainly not helping his reelection chances. 

DE BLASIO, CUOMO AND OTHER POLITICIANS BLST NYPD FOR ARREST OF SERIAL VANDAL

Protester released after controversial arrest in Manhattan; NYC officials demand answers
 


COPS TO BOYCOTT CORONATION OF THE WHITE OBAMA

Over 100 police agencies pull out of Democratic convention

By Amanda Woods

New York Post
July 29, 2020

More than 100 police agencies will no longer send personnel to boost security measures at next month’s Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee — partly over concerns about a recent directive ordering city cops not to use tear gas to control crowds.

The Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission, a citizen oversight commission, last week ordered the city’s police chief to publicly account for why the police department used tear gas in late May and early June during protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

That order also directed the department to change its policies to ban the use of tear gas and pepper spray — and that Milwaukee’s police chief Alfonso Morales could be fired if he does not comply.

Morales told local outlet WTMJ-TV that many agencies are concerned about the new order.

“When you rule an unlawful assembly to help break up that crowd, once we deem them unruly, that’s a safe manner in doing so. Not having those tools increases the potential for more violence,” he said. “That’s a big concern for the law enforcement community within Milwaukee and outside of Milwaukee.”

Local police departments in West Allis, Fond du Lac and Franklin — which were going to send 30 officers in total — withdrew for that reason, according to the report.

“We respect the FPC’s decision making authority but we strongly disagree with the actions that they’ve taken,” Fond du Lac Chief William Lamb said in a statement obtained by the outlet.

“We believe that removing those tools from the available resources for law enforcement officers to use if protests become non-peaceful will severely compromise the safety of the public but also the men and women who will be called upon to protect the DNC.”

The convention, set for Aug. 17 to 20 at the Wisconsin Center in downtown Milwaukee, has been scaled down to a mostly virtual event, with only about 300 people expected to attend in-person.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has said he will be present to accept the nomination.

Though the convention will be smaller in size, cops said they are preparing for the possibility of large-scale protests.

Morales told the local station he’s not ruling out getting help from the National Guard or the federal government.

“Those will be options and those options are still at the table,” he said.

In a statement obtained by The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, local police said the department’s “top priority remains to ensure that next month’s DNC is a safe event for all visitors and participants.”

PORTLAND COP: 'LET THE CITY BURN'

Portland protests have no goal except violence and anarchy

 

By Andy Ngo 

 

New York Post

July 24, 2020

 

At the end of May, rioting and looting broke out in Portland, Ore., as it did in dozens of other American cities in response to the police-involved death of George Floyd. In one night, hundreds of rioters ravaged downtown, breaking into jewelry stores, the mall and banks. They left a trail of broken windows and fires in their wake. That was seven weeks ago. And while violent protests have ebbed or stopped everywhere else, it has continued and grown stronger in Portland.

For 58 days, mass protests and riots have taken over parts of the city. Some streets and areas are literal “no-go zones” at night — either blocked by fires or teams of “guards.”

Day after day, hundreds and even thousands take to the streets and claim the territory as theirs. They cycle through a number of chants like “All cops are bastards” and “Fuck the police.” A large number of them participate in violent criminal acts such as arson and assault. They’ve made it a game to lure law-enforcement officers out of buildings so they can assault them with blinding lasers, paint, rocks and other weapons.

Those who don’t engage in direct violence cheer them on, assist in “de-arresting” comrades and act as cop watchers. Rioters try, and have succeeded in, breaking into Portland police facilities. Now they’re focused on the federal Mark O. Hatfield US Courthouse in response to the Department of Homeland Security sending in reinforcements earlier this month.

Besides the violence and anarchy, what exactly do the rioters want?

As witnessed in the former “autonomous zone” in Seattle, the far-left movement in Portland has no declared “leaders.” Social media is used to decide when and where to meet, but rarely what the goal is. One faction or person may make a statement, only to have it be contradicted by another.

On Wednesday night, Mayor Ted Wheeler spoke at one of the protests for the first time. He was heckled by the crowd and a group projected a list of demands on the front of the Justice Center.

“Theodore, fancy seeing you here. These are our demands,” the statement read. It called for defunding the Portland Police Bureau by at least 50 percent, freeing all protesters from jail, kicking federal law enforcement out, and Wheeler’s resignation.

Despite the radical requests, some took relief because it meant there was something to negotiate on — a possible path to ending seven weeks of violent protests. But the Youth Liberation Front, who led the crowd in shouting expletives at the mayor, didn’t agree.

“What is this ‘defund at least 50%’ shit, we’re trying to abolish the police here,” they quickly tweeted out.

And that’s what people need to know about Antifa. They don’t make demands because that’s working within “the system.” Their unambiguous goal is to destroy all American institutions and then the country itself. When they spray-paint or shout, “Burn it down,” they really mean it.

The Antifa ideology propagated in extremist zines, booklets and Web sites say the US is so fundamentally wicked that no amount of reform can fix it — it must be abolished. They see law enforcement and military as the bulwark between them and their goal.

The daily riots function to drain the city of resources and to weaken the morale of law enforcement and public officials. It’s working.

Last month, Wheeler disbanded the Gun Violence Reduction Unit, claiming it unfairly targeted blacks. In the weeks since, there has been a 380 percent increase in shootings compared with the same time frame last year.

City Councilwoman Jo Ann Hardesty has taken police hatred further. She told Marie Claire magazine this week: “I believe Portland Police [Bureau] is lying about the damage — or starting the fires themselves — so that they have justification for attacking community members.” She partially walked back her accusation after Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell, who is black, asked for evidence of her claim.

“Even before the protests started, we were dealing with a catastrophically short-staffed police bureau,” says Daryl Turner, president of the Portland Police Association. Going back to 2016, city leaders and Antifa-sympathetic activists have worked to denounce police at every opportunity. The anti-police sentiment in the city has led to early retirements and a policing philosophy of “de-escalation” where cops mostly stay away from riots. Just this year, the bureau has had three different police chiefs.

“We’re at a point where none of us knows what to do,” says a Portland police officer who asked to be unidentified. “Some are thinking we just need to give the vocal minority and the politicians what they want: We go away and let the city burn.”

POPULAR ACTOR THINKS THERE IS NO NEED FOR ISRAEL AND SAYS RELIGION IS SILLY

Seth Rogen Says He Was 'Fed Lies About Israel,' Questions Why State Should Exist

 

By Emma Nolan

 

Newsweek

July 29, 2020

 

Seth Rogen has said growing up he was "fed lies about Israel" and questioned why the state should exist in a frank interview about being Jewish with Marc Maron.


The Canadian actor opened up about his thoughts on Israel and Jewish identity and culture in a wide-ranging interview with Maron on the actor's popular WTF podcast.

The Bad Neighbor star, who grew up in Vancouver, spoke about attending Jewish school and Jewish Camp.

However, during the conversation, when the topic turned to Israel, Maron warned viewers that they were about to "piss off a bunch of Jews."

"To me it just seems an antiquated thought process," Rogen, 38, said on he subject of Israel.

"If it is for religious reasons, I don't agree with it, because I think religion is silly. If it is for truly the preservation of Jewish people, it makes no sense, because again, you don't keep something you're trying to preserve all in one place—especially when that place is proven to be pretty volatile, you know? 'I'm trying to keep all these things safe, I'm gonna put them in my blender and hope that that's the best place... that'll do it.' It doesn't make sense to me."

Rogen added that as a Jewish person he "was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life."

He explained: "They never tell you that—'oh by the way, there were people there.' They make it seem like it was just like sitting there, like the fucking door's open!... They forget to include the fact to every young Jewish person."

Maron said he gets "frightened to talk about it," prompting Rogen to exclaim: "I'm afraid of Jews! I'm 100 percent afraid of Jews."

The pair also broached the subject of anti-Semitism, with Rogen saying his father explained the concept to him at a young age.

Rogen explained: "I remember my dad frankly telling me, 'people hate Jews. Just be aware of that. They just do.' And it's honestly something that I am so glad was instilled in me from a young age, because if it wasn't, I would constantly be shocked at how much motherfuckers hate Jews, because they do!"

He added: "It is pervasive and it is prevalent and it is to many Jewish people so confounding that they don't assume it's true...I've tried to put a lot of thought into why it's happened. People obviously hate people who do not look like them. ... I think people also have a weird fear of people who look like them but do not believe the same thing they do fundamentally."

Rogan was appearing on the podcast to discuss his upcoming movie, An American Pickle, which follows a Jewish immigrant who falls into a vat of pickles in New York in 1919 and wakes up 100 years later.

"It was a hard movie to crack, the tone is weird and it's something that I wanted to spend a lot of time making sure we got right," he said of the film.

EDITOR'S NOTE: No need for Israel?  Tell that to Holocaust survivors.

Rogen is just another sorry anti-Semitic Jew. 

ANOTHER DEATH FROM A NON-LETHAL WEAPON

Naked man dies after officers on Texas campus use stun gun on him

 

Associated Press 

July 29, 2020

 

EL PASO, Texas -- Officials say a naked man who was chasing a female driver has died after university police in Texas used a stun gun on him.

The University of Texas at El Paso says the driver called police early Tuesday to report that a naked man was running after her car. 

Officials say campus police officers arrived and used a stun gun on the man because he was combative. 

The man was then taken to an El Paso hospital, where he was pronounced dead. 

Police have not yet released the man’s name, and his cause of death has not yet been determined. 

 

EDITOR'S NOTE: Reuters reported that worldwide more than 1,000 people shocked with a Taser by police died through the end of 2018.  In 2028, at least 49 people died in the US after being tasered by the police.

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

TRUMP WAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT IN SENDING THE FEDS TO PORTLAND

Portland's mayor had his cops surrender the streets to white BLM mobs

By Howie Katz

Big Jolly Times
July 28, 2020









The mayors of Portland, Seattle and Chicago are screaming bloody murder over President Trump's sending of federal agents to protect federal buildings from out of control mobs.

In Portland, the feds used flash bangs,  teargas and pepper balls against the mobs that were trying to attack the federal courthouse because local cops failed to restrain the unpeaceful protesters. 

The mobs were almost all-white, most of them being college students and graduates.

What really pissed off Portland's mayor and the BLM-loving media was that the feds had the audacity to chase the hooligans down the street in order to arrest some of those who threw objects at them before trying to flee the scene.  

Critics of the feds claim that their mere presence escalated the violence.

The feds were right in teargassing, pepper balling and chasing down the unpeaceful protesters.  If some actual peaceful protesters got hurt in the process, that's just tough shit.  They should have headed straight home the moment the mob tried to storm the courthouse.

Trump is reportedly sending an additional 100 deputy US marshals to Portland.

At the request of congressional Democrats, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz has opened an investigation into the the use of force taken by the feds in Portland and in the nation's capital to clear the way for Trump to make his bible-waving photo-op in front of St. John's Church. 

President Trump was absolutely right in sending 114 federal law enforcement officers to Portland.  And under the circumstances, the amount of force used by the feds seemed to be appropriate.      

STEPHON TUITT: A BRIGHT LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Stephon Tuitt may be the only NFL player to stand during the playing of the National Anthem

By Howie Katz

We have at least one, and most likely the only one, player in the NFL who will not disrespect our flag and country.

Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Stephon Tuitthas tweeted Monday that he will stand during the playing of the National Anthem.

Tuitt tweeted "... I’m not kneeling for the flag and screw anybody who have a problem with that.  My grandmother was a immigrant from the Caribbean and she worked her ass off to bring 20 people over the right way. She had no money and educated herself to be a nurse. She living good now."

God bless Stephon Tuitt and his wonderful grandmother!

A VERY GOOD REASON TO VOTE FOR TRUMP ..... BARBARA STREISAND SUPPORTS BIDEN

Barbra Streisand delivers scathing speech about the 'nightmare that is Donald Trump' and says the country 'can't survive four more years' during star-studded virtual Joe Biden fundraiser hosted by Jay Leno

 

Daily Mail 

July 27, 2020

 

Barbra Streisand is supporting Joe Biden in the next presidential election and she delivered a scathing speech about Donald Trump's 'incompetence' to close a virtual Biden fundraiser on Sunday.

The 78-year-old spoke for eight minutes about the 'nightmare that is Donald Trump', telling viewers the country 'can't survive four more years' under his presidency.

'We're living in the nightmare that is Donald Trump who is pouring gasoline on the fire,' she said in a measured, even tone. 'He calls himself the law and order president, but he doesn't obey the law and he can't keep the order.'

'This reckless man doesn't have the wisdom or the character to lead our nation,' she added.

'Our country is coming apart,' she said. Adding that there have been 'shocking violations of civil rights.'

'A few weeks ago, Trump called out the troops against peaceful protesters. That is what cowards do when they are scared,' The legendary singer said. 

'Donald Trump has failed us. And we cannot survive four more years of his incompetence. I'm sad and embarrassed by his lack of humanity,' Barbra told viewers. 

'But Joe Biden understands the anguish we're feeling right now. He will listen to people rather than greeting them with guns. All they want is justice. It's as simple as that.'

Adding that Biden would lead with 'grace and dignity who has respect for the truth unlike Trump, who doesn't believe in facts'. 

'Let's face it, Trump is unfit, mentally and morally, to hold this distinguished office,' she said. Going on to add that 'we don't need a bully as a president' who 'corrupts' the system of checks and balances.

A longtime, outspoken opponent of Donald Trump, Streisand summed up her feelings saying 'I don't know whether to laugh or cry at Trump's blatant narcissism and his daily delusions.'

GETTING HIS HEAD STRUMMED MUST HAVE ADDLED MONAHAN'S BRAIN

NYPD Chief Terence Monahan to cops worried about new laws: ‘We can’t be afraid!’ 

 

By Tina Moore and Bruce Golding

 

New York Post

July 23, 2020


The NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed cop exploded in anger during a CompStat meeting Thursday, telling police brass: “We can’t be afraid of doing what we do!” video obtained by The Post shows.


Chief of Department Terence Monahan erupted when a deputy told him that cops were worried about a controversial new city law that in part makes it a crime to kneel on a suspect’s chest or back while making an arrest.

“They’re concerned about [taking] a bag of crack off the right person, the right dealer, and their knee accidentally — unintentionally — going on their back,” said Deputy Chief Brian McGee, commanding officer of the Manhattan North detective bureau.

Monahan, who was injured while exchanging blows with an anti-cop protester last week, interrupted McGee before could he finish.

“You know what? I wasn’t afraid when I was fighting the guy on the Brooklyn Bridge,” Monahan thundered.

“We can’t be afraid.”

Monahan began asking, “Do you know what happens —” when crosstalk briefly drowned out his words during the meeting at 1 Police Plaza.

“What happens to afraid cops is, they end up dead. And that’s what happens,” Monahan continued.

“That’s why there are so many guns out there. We can’t be afraid. You’ve got every DA come out and say they’re not gonna charge that. We can’t be afraid of doing what we do. We can’t walk away.”

Assistant Chief Kathleen O’Reilly, commanding officer of Patrol Borough Manhattan North, tried to back up McGee, saying, “Chief, but we can’t put our people in harm’s way unnecessarily” before Monahan cut her off, too.

“So, not making an arrest on a B felony is putting ‘em in harm’s way? … I’m talking about a B felony,” Monahan said.

“A sale, hand-to-hand sale, that we shouldn’t be afraid to go and make [an arrest for] a hand-to-hand sale,” Monahan said.

Ironically, Monahan has been among the harshest critics of the law that Mayor Bill de Blasio signed last week, which also bars chokeholds and any other move that “restricts the flow of air or blood” or “compresses the diaphragm.”

During a TV interview earlier this month, Monahan said he objected to the “diaphragm” provision, which he called a “dangerous, dangerous portion of that bill.”

Monahan told PIX11 that “any cop who’s ever fought with someone on the street, trying to get him into cuffs, there’s a great possibility that your knee is going to end up on that individual’s back.”

“We try to avoid that, but in the midst of a fight, it’s pretty hard to make sure that doesn’t happen,” he added.

De Blasio has acknowledged that the new law will make cop’s jobs harder, but said it was necessary because people “need to be safe.”

In response to Monahan’s CompStat outburst, the president of the Detectives Endowment Association, Paul DiGiacomo, said, “By no means are narcotics detectives afraid of doing their jobs.”

“They’re afraid of the lack of support from the district attorneys and elected officials who enacted these irresponsible laws,” DiGiacomo said.

“It’s the district attorneys that are not prosecuting these arrests when narcotics detectives are risking their lives when they’re out there every day doing their jobs. Nobody’s said they’re not arresting us and most of the district attorneys are not prosecuting narcotics-related cases.”

AUSTIN PD UNION PRESIDENT DID WHAT HE IS SUPPOSED TO DO

Austin police union head blames deadly shooting on Black Lives Matter protester who is the one that was shot dead

 

By Lia Eustachewich

 

New York Post

July 28, 2020

 

The head of the Austin, Texas, police union blamed a Black Lives Matter protester for the confrontation in which the man was shot dead, saying the demonstrator was “looking for a confrontation and found it.”

Kenneth Casaday, the president of the Austin Police Association, tweeted about the Saturday night incident during which Garrett Foster was fatally shot by a driver who plowed through a crowd of protesters.

“Please watch this video. This is the guy that lost his life last night,” Casaday tweeted, with a clip apparently showing Foster being interviewed hours before he died. “He was looking for confrontation and he found it.”

In the video, the man who appears to be Foster discusses why he’s armed with an AK-47 at the protests.

“They don’t let us march in the streets anymore so gotta practice some our rights,” the man, wearing a black bandanna and baseball cap, says.

“If I use it against the cops, I’m dead,” he adds. “I think all the people that hate us and want to say s–t to us are too big of p—s to stop and do anything about it.”

Casaday defended tweeting the video during an appearance on CNN on Monday.

“Maybe in hindsight it wasn’t the best thing to do, but I stand by what I did. … I just think that it was the best thing for the community to know at that time,” he said.

Casaday claimed Foster had been protesting in front of the city manager’s house, armed with a rifle.

“You look like you’re picking a fight when you’re out standing in front of the city manager’s house intimidating them,” he said.

Witnesses have said the driver, who has not been identified, was the one initiating the violence before allegedly shooting Foster dead. The driver has been released from police custody without charges, pending an investigation.

Foster, 28, who was white, died from multiple gunshot wounds. Family and friends said he was at the protest with his quadruple-amputee fiancee, who is black.

PEACEFUL PROTESTERS VANDALIZED LAPD HEADQUARTERS MEMORIAL TO COPS KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY

LAPD: Seeking Suspects Who Vandalized Memorial Display On Police Building In Downtown LA

LAPPL News Watch
July 28, 2020

Authorities are seeking the public's help to track down suspects involved in vandalizing a memorial display on an outside wall of the Los Angeles Police Department's headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.

The vandalism occurred about 5:30 p.m. Saturday, said Los Angeles police Officer Norma Eisenman of the media relations office.

A group of protesters entered the property and defaced the wall and a display case with red paint.  

"The officers memorialized in these cases made the ultimate sacrifice for their city. Now we need your help finding that responsible for defacing our tribute to their sacrifice," an LAPD statement reads.

The department released images of the damage, along with an image of a man with a face-covering defacing the structure with paint. 

POLICE IN THAILAND, LIKE POLICE IN US, UNABLE TO CONTROL MOB OF MONKEYS

Thai police admit they are powerless to control marauding sex-crazed monkeys that over-ran a city leaving people terrified to leave their homes


By Chris Jewers

Daily Mail
July July 28, 22020

Police in Thailand have admitted that they are powerless to control the thousands of sex-crazed monkeys that have over-run a city, leaving people terrified to leave their homes.

The macaques in the city of Lopburi were tolerated, and even revered by some, but their population has been growing rapidly during the coronavirus crisis. 

A lack of tourists and consistent source of food has led to the monkeys becoming aggressive, with as many as 8,400 now overrunning the city and forcing locals to avoid going outside where possible, adding to Lopburi's economic woes. 

Speaking to the The New York Times, one police officer said that he had been using a slingshot to fend off large groups of monkeys, to little avail, with the macaques returning in a matter of minutes.

'It’s hopeless,' he said. 'Within a blink of an eye there are more monkeys. So many babies.' 

Locals are forced to leave their jewelry at home and keep other personal belongings out of sight for fear that the thieves might snatch them, with some too afraid to leave their homes and forced to barricade their doors and windows.

Their growing numbers - doubling in three years - have made an uneasy coexistence with their human peers almost intolerable. 

Reluctant to just let the monkey starve, people have since taken to feeding them junk food in an attempt to keep the peace, but many believe the sugary diet has turned them sex-crazed and that they are now breeding faster than before. 

As a result of their new diet, the urban monkeys have lost muscle mass, and many suffer from blood disease and hypertension.

Local Kuljira Taechawattanawanna said that the monkeys make a horrible mess of the town, and that she feels like a prisoner in her own home. 

'We live in a cage but the monkeys live outside,' she said. 'Their excrement is everywhere, the smell is unbearable especially when it rains.'

Furthermore, attempts to control the population of the monkeys have so far proven fruitless.

Thai authorities have tried to sterilise some of the Crab-eating macaques - a Southeast Asian species - but they have been breeding faster than can be controlled. 

Local wildlife officers planned to fix 500 of the monkeys last week, but in the long-term they are planning to build a sanctuary in another part of the city for the monkeys.     

Some areas of the city have become no-go areas.

An abandoned cinema is the macaques' headquarters - and cemetery. Dead monkeys are laid to rest by their peers in the projection room in the cinema's rear and any human who enters is attacked.

Nearby, a shop owner displays stuffed tiger and crocodile toys to try to scare off the monkeys, who regularly snatch spray-paint cans from his store.

Taweesak Srisaguan, the shop owner, says that despite his daily joust with the creatures, he will miss them if they are moved.

'I'm used to seeing them walking around, playing on the street,' he says. 'If they're all gone, I'd definitely be lonely.'

Before the coronavirus, the monkeys drew tourists to the city, with many purchasing fruit from local businesses to feed the monkeys for a photo opportunity.

They also drew the Buddhist faithful, who believe feeding the animals to be a meritorious deed. 

However, now that this source of food has vanished, the monkeys - which had already moved into abandoned buildings - have taken to targeting anything that looks like it could be food.

Narongporn Doodduem, the director of a regional office of the Wildlife Conservation Department, told the New York Times 'The monkeys are never hungry. Just like children who eat too much KFC.'

ON TOP OF THE CORONA CRISIS AND ITS ECONOMIC FALLOUT, THE iSRAELI GOVERNMENT IS NOW FACED WITH A GAY CONVERSION THERAPY CONTROVERSY

Gay Conversion Therapy Threatens Netanyahu Government



Israel Today
July 27, 2020

Gay conversion therapy.

That’s what could ultimately bring down the current Netanyahu government. Not the coronavirus or its economic fallout, nor the charges of corruption the prime minister is facing in court. But conversion therapy.

What’s the deal?


Gay conversion therapy is legal in Israel, though discouraged by the Ministry of Health. As a whole, Israel is overly tolerant and even welcoming of homosexuality, but this is not true of the large ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority.

A bill was introduced this month by the opposition that would outlaw conversion therapy in Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his coalition to oppose the bill.

But, the “Blue and White” party as well as the Labor Party fully supported the bill. One Likud member, openly homosexual Internal Security Minister Amir Ohana, also voted in favor of the motion.

What’s the fallout?


Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox coalition partners–Shas and United Torah Judaism–are now threatening to disrupt and even topple the government and bring about a fourth election.

During the vote on the bill, they shouted curses at their “Blue and White” and Labor coalition partners.

In particular, the ultra-Orthodox MKs informed “Blue and White” leader Benny Gantz that he would now never become prime minister. As part of Gantz’s coalition agreement with Netanyahu, he is supposed to take over as prime minister in September of next year.

What to watch


The bill outlawing conversion therapy has thus far passed only the first of three necessary readings in the Knesset.

It is still a long way from becoming law, and the current government is facing many other challenges that could bring it down long before that.

However, even if Netanyahu and Gantz manage to agree on a state budget and effectively reverse the economic impact of COVID-19, the conversion therapy bill will remain a threat to the coalition.

The ultra-Orthodox parties will never support it, and will not sit in a government that passes it into law.

At the same time, the more liberal “Blue and White” and Labor parties can’t be seen voting against the bill, lest they risk losing even more centrist and left-wing votes to opposition parties.

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

4,000 NYPD OFFICERS HAS HAD A SUBSTANTIATED COMPLAINT AGAINST THEM

NYPD disciplinary records reveal a host of substantiated complaints

 

By Aaron Feis

 

New York Post

July 26, 2020

 

One in nine NYPD officers has had a complaint against them substantiated, according to ProPublica, which on Sunday released a massive trove of NYPD disciplinary records obtained following the recent repeal of a state law keeping them under wraps.

With a court battle still raging over the records — led by NYPD unions, which argue in part that the releases could tarnish cops’ reputations by including allegations that were ultimately unsubstantiated — the outlet restricted its database to active-duty cops who had at least one case against them substantiated by the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board.

But that still amounts to some 3,996 officers — or approximately one-in-nine active-duty Finest.

The database includes all allegations filed against cops fitting the bill, substantiated or otherwise, spanning Sept. 1985 through Jan. 2020.

They are further broken down into four categories: “Abuse of Authority” (totaling 20,292 allegations), “Force” (7,636), “Discourtesy” (4.677) and “Offensive Language” (753).

ProPublica number-crunchers found that some 34 officers in the database have faced 40 or more allegations, while 303 have had five or more substantiated allegations, yet stayed on the job.

A judge temporarily blocked the city from releasing the data on unsubstantiated claims amid a legal challenge by police, fire and jail-guard unions.

Citing the pending litigation, the NYPD declined to comment on the publication of the data.

A spokeswoman referred The Post to the city Law Department, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

EDITOR'S NOTE: 34 officers have faced 40 or more allegations but are still on the job?  They must have caught the commissioner fucking his secretary in his office.

PIERS WHACKS GOLD DIGGER MEGHAN AND HER MOTHER LODE HARRY

Meghan and Harry's new book only confirms they're the world's most tone-deaf, hypocritical, narcissistic, deluded, whiny brats - AND that most of the stories the 'lying' press wrote about them were 100 percent true!

 

By Piers Morgan

 

Daily Mail 

July 27, 2020

 

'Where’s the positivity,’ moans Prince Harry,' why is everyone so miserable and angry?’

I regret to say I laughed out loud when I read that line from the new book “Finding Freedom” which claims to be the REAL story about why Harry and his wife Meghan quit the Royals and Britain.

It’s hard to think of anyone in public life right now more relentlessly miserable, angry and negative than the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Barely a week goes by without them whining about something or suing people.

They’ve become serial victims, intent on painting themselves as the most hard-done-by people on God’s earth.

Yet the more they complain, as the rest of the world struggles with the very real hell of the worst pandemic for 100 years, the more they expose themselves as a pair of appallingly bitter, staggeringly self-obsessed, utterly deluded, and woefully tone-deaf laughing stocks.

The title of the book alone has made me shake my head ever since it was announced.

It is obviously derived from Nelson Mandela’s autobiography ‘Long Walk To Freedom’ which is one of the most powerful books ever written about regaining liberty.

But any comparison between Mandela and the Sussexes is frankly a sick joke.

For 18 of his 27 years behind bars, South Africa’s most iconic leader was housed in an 8ft-by-7ft concrete cell on Robben Island with only a straw mat to sleep on. He had an iron bucket for a toilet, thin blankets for his bed, and allowed one visitor a year. He couldn’t even attend the funerals of his mother and son.

Every day, Mandela would work in a lime quarry, breaking stones as armed guards watched over him.

So, the freedom he experienced when he finally got out of prison was a very real and visceral one.

Harry and Meghan’s experience in captivity has been slightly less oppressive.

After a sumptuous wedding that was rapturously received around the world, they lived in a palatial taxpayer-funded royal home, were waited on by teams of servants, flew around in private jets, and attended glitzy movie premieres where they were cheered by screaming fans.

But it wasn’t enough.

Stung by a series of perceived slights by other members of the royal family and palace courtiers, and repeated media criticism of hypocrisy based on their undeniably hypocritical behavior, they began to see this gilded life of unimaginable luxury and privilege as a ‘prison’.

In their eyes, they had become Nelson Mandela, the victims of a terrible miscarriage of justice now trapped in a world of unending misery.

So, they broke ‘free’, dramatically announcing in early January that they were quitting the royals, and Britain, and heading off for a new life in America where they could be the people they wanted to be and lead the lives they wanted to lead.

There was just one problem.

Unlike Mandela, who emerged from his very real prison with extraordinary positivity, an astonishing lack of bitterness, and an intense desire to unify not divide, the Sussexes seem even more unhappy now than they were before and intent on causing as much division as possible.

This new book, clearly written with their approval and with enough private details to establish that a lot of it came directly from the horses’ mouths, was supposed to ‘set the record straight’.

We would all apparently read it, understand how badly treated they were, and sympathize enormously.

In fact, the opposite has happened.

The extracts published in various newspapers have only shown us just how pathetically self-pitying Harry and Meghan have become.

This was a couple who had it all - but threw it away in a massive fit of ego-driven pique.

The sheer scale of their narcissism is astonishing, and at the heart of it lies one stunning fact: they genuinely couldn’t understand why William and Kate, the future King and Queen, got preferential treatment to them.

Time after time in the book, this seething resentment re-emerges and it explains everything.

For a couple so low down the Throne Succession cab rank, the Sussexes have delusions of grandeur and importance on a breath-taking scale.
They also have no sense of self-awareness.

In the book, Harry and Meghan, always so angry at media intrusion into their family’s life, have stuck the knife into his family in spectacular fashion.

Harry whacks his brother Prince William for being a snob and his father Prince Charles for being thoughtless, while Meghan whacks her sister-in-law Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, for being cold and insensitive towards her.

They repeatedly accuse the whole Royal family, presumably including the Queen, of ignoring their desperate plight, despite, as they laughably claim, them single-handedly leading the royals to supposedly unprecedented heights of global popularity.

The fact this garbage is being spewed after the Queen, Charles, William and Kate have spent months comforting the British people in remarkably empathetic and impressive fashion during the crisis, is even more grating.

The deeply intrusive revelations go on, page after page.

Of course, the comical irony of the approved publication of all this ‘setting the record straight’ private information is that most of it confirms myriad newspaper stories that we were previously assured were ‘media lies’.

There are other little snippets in the book that blast off the page like bombs.

Meghan, we’re told, used to tip off the paparazzi about her movements in Toronto where she filmed her TV show Suits. One of them even had her phone number.

Oh, and she would leak stories to the press to promote herself.

When I read this, I thought immediately of the way she has so heartlessly disowned her father Thomas for naively colluding with the paparazzi to promote himself in the run-up to her wedding.

And for her furiously worded lawsuit against unknown paparazzi last week for their alleged intrusion into their Hollywood life.

It’s clearly one rule for Meghan when it comes to such media-appeasing behavior, another for even her dad.

As with so much that surrounds the Duchess’s conduct, the hypocrisy is stunning.

But what’s even more repellent is her totally delusional victimhood.

‘I gave up my entire life for this family,’ whines Meghan in the book.

No luv, you gave up precisely three years for this family, then stole away Britain’s favorite Prince to Hollywood where you’re now complaining even more than you were before.

As for ‘hostage’ Harry, he’s becoming a tragic figure. It’s getting to the stage where his former army mates may want to fly over to Los Angeles to carry out an extraction operation and save him from himself.

If this book is supposed to be the pro Meghan and Harry one, I’d hate to see a hatchet job.

They come out of it as the world’s most self-centered couple, bleating away about their ghastly lives living in TV star Tyler Perry’s $20 million Hollywood mansion, and seemingly oblivious to the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have died from the coronavirus and tens of millions more have lost their jobs.

The struggle for much of the planet right now is very, very real.

Just as it was for Nelson Mandela for 27 years.

Meghan and Harry’s only struggle is to work out each day which of their latest borrowed lavish home’s twelve bathrooms they want to luxuriate in before they bravely appear on those creepy videos to lecture us all about equality and hardship.

I think what most of us would like now is to find freedom from this ridiculous pair’s incessantly negative, miserably, angry whining.