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Bull ****. It'll force the Canadians to refine their own crap or take it off the market. I don't care if it increases the cost of gasoline or not. I want fewer cars on the road and either way it will help improve the rail infrastructure by bringing road beds up to snuff for freight and passenger service.

Making extra dirty oil even more expensive is a very good thing.

Politicians of all stripes specialize in opportunistic photo-ops. But Democrats really blew it earlier this week with their display of Kente cloth shawls, which they donned while kneeling for nearly nine minutes to show “solidarity” with black people in the midst of race riots plaguing the nation. For one thing, George Floyd died because a cop kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes, so this was, to quote the movie “Animal House,” a “really futile and stupid gesture … on somebody’s part.” Worse, the Kente cloth they wore was the garb of the Ashanti tribe — a tribe that was known for owning and trading slaves. Oops!

If leftists weren’t so busy learning their “history” from the revisionist and race-baiting 1619 Project, they might know that black Africans captured and sold other black Africans to white Westerners, and that there is still an active slave trade in Africa.

The Left Has Gone from 'Orange Man Bad' to 'White Man Bad'—and It's Going to Backfire

Any citizen not deeply propagandized and programmed by the Democratic Socialist left knows this: In the eyes of most American people, the Democrat vision for the future is cripplingly weak. So tangibly fragile that one businessman and his vision has tilted the opposition party into a realm of derangement, and into the business of cowering before and even fomenting the utter madness and incomprehensibility we see playing out across the nation right now.

Another meme: Whatever accusation Democrats level is what they’re guilty of. Could it be that malignly simple?

A double-down on the criminalization of whiteness is bad. It is hard to imagine worse. But here we are.

The silver lining in all this may be that the left doesn’t seem to grasp the reservoir of goodwill and fair-mindedness it will squander if it continues down its present path. It doesn’t seem to understand just who it is they are forcing to circle the wagons—a nation populated by white people who vehemently oppose racism and bigotry in all its ugly manifestations. Further, it fails to factor that many “people of color,” while cognizant of some racist taints in our history, will reject this broad-brush allegation against contemporary fellow citizens.

It grows ever more likely that a winning majority of voters in this great nation understand that the president was illegally targeted by left-wingers in the Deep State, and that he is not responsible for and acted prudently in response to coronavirus.

Now, with the Democrat Party’s core message centering on the unbearable awfulness of America and “white man bad,” odds are that they will turn out in a decidedly unforgiving state of mind.

Horowitz: The new panic lie: Increased coronavirus hospitalizations and cases in the southwest

It’s little things like this that let you know what Trump really thinks of black people.

White people

More than anyone else, Media Matters is responsible for this.

Michigan Democratic Official Faces Trial for Six Counts of Alleged Election Fraud

Stemming from the Nov. 6, 2018 general election, Hawkins was charged as follows:

Count One: Election law – Falsifying returns/records, a five-year felony and/or $1,000;

Count Two: Forgery of a public record, a 14-year felony;

Count Three: Misconduct in office, a five-year felony and/or $10,000;

Count Four: Using a computer to commit a crime – election law – falsifying returns/records, a seven-year felony and/or $5,000;

Count Five: Using a computer to commit a crime – forgery of a public record, a 10-year felony and/or $10,000;

Count Six: Using a computer to commit a crime – misconduct in office, a seven-year felony and/or $5,000.