Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 7 June 2020

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz; Acting Sec. of Homeland Security Chad Wolf; Former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen. Panel: Ben Domenech, the Federalist; Marie Harf, Party on, Wayne; Jason Riley, conservative black journalist, Wall Street Journal.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Spartacus Booker (D-N.J.); Alicia Garza, Commissar, Black Lives Matter; Lonnie G. Bunch III, Smithsonian Institution; James Stavridis, retired United States Navy admiral, Operating Executive with The Carlyle Group and Chair of the Board of Counselors at McLarty Associates. Panel: Never Trumper David French, Time Fishwrap Magazine; Eugene Robinson, Race Baiter, Amazon Post; NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Attorney General and Bagpiper William Barr; Former Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice; Mayor Sylvester Turner (D-Houston); Former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb. Panel:

THIS WEEK (ABC): Acting Sec. of Homeland Security Chad Wolf; Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.); Former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman and author Martin Dempsey (“No Time For Spectators: The Lessons That Mattered Most From West Point to the West Wing”). Panel: Mary Bruce; Jonathan Karl; Rachel Scott; Pierre Thomas.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Former Sec. of State Colin Powell. Sec. of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles).

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): White Trade Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro; Sen. Linda “Slow Roller” Graham (R-S.C.); Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.); Attorney for President Trump Rudy Giuliani. Panel: Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.); Trey Gowdy.

“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

Brothers and Sisters, Thank you for your thoughts and prayers during my cardiac arrest. It is amazing how many you know and love when you have a miracle like this. Last Monday morning on Memorial day my wife woke up from the couch to hear me making a death moan. She is a retired nurse who is never rattled or shaken from no matter what the situation. She is now known as Saint Marilyn.

She immediately called 911 even though our cell phones were dead and knew you can call 911 from a dead phone especially when she had a dead husband. There was no pulse and was cold and clammy even though she got there about 5 mins after my heart shut down. If she had slept in the bedroom rather than in front of the TV I would not be writing this letter.

She pleaded with the 911 operator while she was giving CPR but held in there until the Fire Dept arrived with a dozen other cops and paramedics. They moved me to our living room and began CPR stating there was no heartbeat, pulse or electrical pulse. I was flatlined and they worked on me for around 20 minutes until the second charge restarted my heart.

They then took me to Meridian Park where I went to the ICU and they began stabilizing me until 8 PM that night when I went flatline again. Again they had to restart CPR, defibrillate and restarted my heart after what they said was a long time. It was so bad on this one they did the unthinkable with Corona which was calling my wife to come back down and say goodbye. That is the only way spouses are allowed into the Hospital with the virus. Everyone working on me thought I would not make it let alone not becoming a vegetable.

My neighbor Walt put me on his church’s prayer chain of over a hundred people at his church and our circle of friends of which a number of you were on. I believe I was also on the Athey Creek prayer chain and found I was on one in Texas with one of my customers. I really felt the prayers and was humbled with the number who were praying for my health in this heart attack.

No, I did not see the golden stairs or the bright light or the guy with the horns and tail, only a comfort knowing that if I did die I would be going home to Jesus.

Two days later I was laughing and joking with the doctors and nurses as my strength grew stronger and stronger. There was no damage to the heart and minimal issues with the scrambling of the brain. It seems to be pretty much back to normal and just enjoying the pain I received from the during the heart message with bruised or broken ribs.
It turns out I have Sudden Death syndrome which the electrical system just stops. The heart and valves are in great shape it is just there is a genetic defect that the heart stops beating which can be a problem. They have installed a pacemaker with a defibrillator in case it does it again.

The entire event was a miracle from God since surviving this severe of attack has a less than 10% survival rate.

To not have any damage let alone living through this is simply the Grace of God. Many have said Jesus is not finished with me yet and I truly believe this and received a card from a longtime friend who has accepted Jesus as his savior this year, Praise God.

The fields are full and harvest is ripe for the lost. I can now share a miracle story and give all the glory to God. Not many have survived death let alone twice and lived to tell about his mercy.

Everyone has been asking and hope this helps answer your questions, Thank you so much for your prayers since I truly believe they are why I survived as well as allowing me to share in the hospital.

Thank You, bray

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.

• Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.

• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.

Yes I am compiling a Blog about the great pandemic of 2020 and how my country stupidly shut down the economy. We will have opinions, political and cultural highlights, my personal experience, social media details, even TV reviews since I watch so much TV while in my home jail. We shall, as always, end with a smile.

MISC. PANDEMIC NOTES OF THE WEEK

(an update for my descendants)

Media Ignores the Truth

The lies about what the president says or does continues.

The church incident is the most intriguing. Some looters burned a church near the White House. In the midst of all this, that had President Trump daring to carry a bible to that church may he go to hell, there were rubber bullets fired, tear gas sprayed.

Over and over and over every military force involved in the D.C. fiasco denied firing rubber bullets or tear gas.

But that was not good enough for the media which like the story that Trump carried a bible as a prop and this after firing bullets and tear gas at the peaceful protesters in a nearby park.

When the media like a story that reflects badly on the Trump administration they run with it no matter how far from the truth it might be.

Below the denial of the lies so maybe the one or two people who read this blog will get it. Or perhaps even my descendants shall read.

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MAJOR POLITICAL EVENT OF THE WEEK

(another update)

Riots

Yon descendants you might some day read about the destruction of American cities by rioters and looters who came from all over to burn buildings and hey, get themselves some free TV's.

To my descendants I will tell about the riots during my adolescent era in the 60's. Back in those days the country was involved in a stupid war with North Vietnam and back in those days, descendants, young men got drafted. The did NOT volunteer to go fight a war that made no sense to Americans and even worse, run by politicos who have no business directing a war.

Myself, yon descendants, was part of those....well let's call them demonstrations because there were few buildings burned and no TV's easy to steal.

In fact, yon descendants might have heard of the song by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young called "4 Dead in Ohio". Because the National Guard shot Kent State, Ohio students who were making a rush at them. Four died.

Eventually, descendants, America pulled out of South Vietnam. North Vietnam runs the country now and we have many Vietnamese in America doing our nails. Vietnam is doing fairly well but it's hardly any bastion of liberty. Still, our unwilling young men had no business being pulled from their lives to go fight in a country for a war that made little sense to anyone.

So, yon descendants, riots and unrest are nothing new. A black man was killed by a Minnesota police officer and the people are mad.

But burning buildings, shooting cops and stealing and robbing are not a response that makes anyone better off.

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MAJOR CULTURE EVENT OF THE WEEK

(one more update)

ANTIFA

So we have a group of anti-American nut jobs that want to bring this country down yon descendants. They are known as ANTIFA which stands for Antifacist which stands for....I don't know....revolution?

I was listening to an interview on a cable news show. The interviewer said that ANTIFA is something new, that such as riots and revolts happened during the 60's which I mentioned above. The interviewer said that there were no organizations behind the scenes ramping up burning, looting, shooting and general anger.

The interviewee denounced that assertion and mentioned something that made me snap my fingers in recognition. "Yes, there was the SDS," the interviewee said.

Indeed yon descendants, the SDS...."Students for a Democratic Society" worked behind the scenes to stoke up the unrest that happened in colleges across the country. In fact, as I recall, I once dabbled with that organization which, like ANTIFA was often financed by some bigwig somewhere, some politicos. There was also the infamous Black Panthers behind the scenes stoking the anger.

So such as ANTIFA is not new. Anti-American people are out there and given a chance they will encourage unrest in the population.

Social media serves a purpose in arranging meetings and such in this day and age but even back in the 60's, groups were out there that hated America and wanted to bring it down.

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PERSONAL NOTES FROM ME RE THE PANDEMIC

(that my descendants may know how I handled it)

Delaware's Governor, who I call King Carney, demands that we wear those horrible masks when we go out. And it's not like, yon descendants, we can refuse because the stores won't sell us groceries unless we wear the masks per King Carney.

So I do.

I came across the pic below of a mask I'd dearly love to find. I'd wear it with a smile.

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OVER THE INTERNET

(social media explains so much)

Social Media Irritations

Allow me to hereby assert, yon descendants, that there has been no "sin" committed in social media that I have not my own self committed.

Social media consists of Facebook, Twitter and other participatory web sites.

Also understand, yon descendants, that social media involves communication mostly by verbiage, usually typed, as opposed to in-person conversation. It's the impersonal method of communication that cause some things to happen that annoy me.

And again, I've committed them all. But give me credit for at least acknowledging that I've learned a thing or two.

First, the drama-mamas. I find this frequently on Facebook yon descendants should Facebook still be around in your day. And yes, I once was guilty of this on a grand scale and no, I'm not proud of that.

What happens, someone goes onto Facebook and makes a post, very vague, but with some great emotion....fear, anger, ....something going on in the poster's life that is causing them a big reaction. An example..."I hope I get through this."

Now the reader has no idea what "this" is but many readers are friends, even family, of this person so they jump in and ask what is wrong, can they help.

Sometimes the poster responds with an explanation but often they don't. As I see it yon descendants, the poster just wants some attention at that moment.

It's not that I dislike this so much as I think it's a bit childish and takes advantage of people's good nature.

And yes I've done this before....I am not proud of it.....and I won't do it again.

Another thing I really hate is the use of abbreviation on social media. Well yes we live in a world of typed words and yes it's a bit of a pain to type the same set of words over and over. Indeed, there is an acceptable form of abbreviation on many phrases that have leaked over into our real spoken words. Everyone knows LOL means laughing out loud. Or even LMAO means laughing my arse off.

But so often I read a comment where the poster uses abbreviations make no sense to me and, I argue yon descendants, often make no sense to other readers.

For example, say a guy is former military and sharing a story about something happened to him in the army. He does a good job of phrasing the story but somewhere in the middle of the comment you might see something like this...."and suddenly we get a call from MI and must go to headquarters."

Now I don't know what MI is. Turns out it is "military intelligence" which is a lot of letters to type as the poster probably thought. But the reader loses all the meaning of the abbreviation without knowing what MI stands for. Maybe former military people know what the abbreviation means but most ordinary people do not.

If using a phrase that is repeated in a comment for posting, why not type it out fully one time, then add the intended use of an acronym in parenthesis right after the full phrase? For example....I writing a post about my Delaware Governor, who I call "King Carney". Why not make the first sentence like "I am so mad at my Governor of Delaware, King Carney (KC)."?

The next time the reader sees KC in the post they will then know what the abbreviation means.

At any rate yon descendants, those are just a few of my social medial pains. Don't y'all pick up such annoying habits.

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Below is a good example of social media fun. It's a silly post yet I laugh out loud. Smile. It's often how us peons think.

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EDITORIAL

(My opinion for my descendants)

Joe Biden, China and the election

As of this writing yon descendants my own former state Senator here in Delaware, and former Vice-President to all of us, Joe Biden, is running for president. He will be running against current president Donald Trump.

A problem is that Joe Biden , as of this writing anyway, shows signs of dementia or, at best, a mind that seems to have some kind of short in it.

Biden has run for president before, several times, but he never went anywhere. He has been a senator for many years and VP for eight.

There's been a lot of talk about Biden's son getting lots of money from the Ukraine and, whispered all about, China. I recall Biden being involved, back in the late 90's, with buying uranium from Nigeria or some such.

In short, Biden's real job as an elected person, was to be corrupt and raise lots of money for his fellow politicos and political party. There is even a video of Biden laughing with some fellow politicos that he told Ukraine to fire the guy studying his son or they'll not get the money America promised.

In short, yon descendants, Joe Biden is the worst presidential candidate a party could have. The Democrats had some other candidates that would have been better if only by a little bit. There was Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, the Fauxcahontas from Massachusetts.

So why are the Democrats choosing the WORST candidate possible.

I think the Democrats know that Biden is a bad candidate. Currently he rides a crest that raises him in the polls mostly on his name recognition but what with debates and interviews, viewers will see that Biden no more should be president than me. Well actually yon descendants, I am a better candidate than Biden.

I think the deal the Dems make with Biden is that they will nominate him, they will openly support him, they will align behind him. But he will be on his own and if Trump wins everybody knows that those corrupt politicos in the Obama administration will be found out and many will go to prison.

In other words, the money Hunter Biden got from Ukraine will become national knowledge with solid proof. Also, there is a strong China connection with Biden and this too will become common knowledge. And America is right angry with China right now so that won't help.

This way every Dem won't have to lie to defend Biden forever should he not run for president. The deal is, he runs for president. If he loses he will be on his own and any fingers Biden would point to other famous Dems who got Ukraine and Chinese money for political favors will be dismissed as Biden all mad because he lost.

If Biden wins....which won't happen....but if he wins, then the Dems are all in safe.

I believe that's the deal the Democrats made with Biden. "We'll support you but if you lose, you're on your own dealing with AB Barr and a victorious Trump."

As I see it, yon descendants.

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TIME FOR A SMILE

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Below is a three part analysis of a video featuring Trevor Loudon and Jerome Corsi.Its who the antifa and BLM and others really are where they come from and what they are up to and why.It answers a lot of questions I had and may be of interest to many here.

Its long so I divided it into three parts here is part 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b033G3w-wlU&feature=emb_title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b033G3w-wlU&feature=emb_title Trevor Loudon and Jerome Corsi

The beginnings of the anitifa goes back to Nazi Germany.They were street thugs fighting brown shirts until they changed to brown shirts themselves.They were basically totalitarian thugs,little difference between the two groups.

They,antifa, surfaced again in the 80’s with connects to local unions, left wing political parties with power to take over entire districts/govt. shut down any freedoms we have,our speech,whatever.They came in from Europe. They take over where ever dem party is strong.

They are very well organized and supported by labor unions, dem politicians,they network with para-military org. to destroy free speech and conservative and free speech groups. They can be found worldwide in Latin America, South America New Zealand they are everywhere. Mexico,Europe they work with anarchists and communists, ISIS,anyone who wants to bring down America. They communicate on the internet using opsec— operational networking on the internet.

Through the internet they know what to do no matter where they are in the US.They use minimum communications.

ANtifa members are very security conscious. They were recently infiltrated by Project Veritas

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/04/project-veritas-infiltrates-violent-antifa-movement-additionally-doj-announce-today-antifa-behind-recent-violence/

On the same day U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr announces an investigative finding that Antifa is behind much of the recent violence, looting and arson; James O’Keefe releases an undercover video of Project Veritas efforts infiltrating the group. First, from AG Barr:

Dept of Justice – […] At some demonstrations, there are groups that exploit the opportunity to engage in looting. And finally, at some demonstration, there are extremist agitators who are hijacking the protests to pursue their own separate and violent agenda.

We have evidence that Antifa and other similar extremist groups, as well as actors of a variety of different political persuasions, have been involved in instigating and participating in the violent activity. We are also seeing foreign actors playing all sides to exacerbate the violence. (more)

Project Veritas infiltrated them but it took years to do.Trained by terror types commies are very violent.

They love to start fights and than blame it on the police or whomever they provoke. Most antifa violence happens in dem districts where the police are told to stand downno fear of authority since they know they can get away with whatever they want to do.

The Antifa Always masked(we have to get rid of their right to wear masks) with friendly lawyers who bail them out.

Chicoms do much of the org.freedom road socialists.com Masks for covid are more a part of dem plan to destroy Trump than protection from covid. This allows antifa to keep wearing masks protects their identity,if we start outing them and jailing them they are through.

Below are some of the orgs. that are the father corps of the antifa

Freedom Road Socialist Organization From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Freedom Road

Socialist Organizations

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Founded 1985; 35 years ago[1] Ideology Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Proletarian internationalism Anti-Imperialism Political position Far-left International affiliation International Communist Seminar Colors Red Website frso.org Politics of the United States Political parties Elections Part of a series on Socialism in the United States History[show] People[show] Active organizations[show] Defunct organizations[show] Literature[show] Related topics[show] Red flag II.svg Socialism portal Flag of the United States.svg United States portal vte

The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) was formed in 1985 as many of the Maoist-oriented groups formed in the United States New Communist Movement of the 1970s were shrinking or collapsing. The FRSO tried to solidify some of these groups into a single organization that would have some longevity.

THey are strong in Northern FLA.

Allied with the PLO,openly Marxist Lenninist terror organization

Strong in Tallahassee, FLa. mayor of Tallahassee,was he in with them? You gotta wonder,he was supported by the chicoms.(part 2) These guys do the thug work on the streets they make demands of Minn. very close to Keith Ellison Att. Gen. for Minnesota Nation of Islam/Muslim ties to Iran,Saudis,communist movement holds fundraising for commies, freedom road socialists, true slime dog.

Pro terrorist, pro Chinese, Tom Perez vs. Keith Ellison for chair of DNC both commies Ellison’s son involved as well. END PART 1

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