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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/someone-elses-life-is-passing-before-bidens-eyes/

A story the Dem nominee offered at his recent townhall is almost certainly hogwash.

Sometimes when Joe Biden offers yarns about his childhood, I think of a Woody Allen bit from his stand-up days in which the comic tells the story of being invited to a Halloween party while visiting the Deep South in the early 1960s. Allen decides to dress-up as a ghost, and throws on a white sheet and sets off. Soon, a bunch of men also in white sheets drive up and order him to get in a car. A naïve Allen, assuming the group of people are also going to the party as ghosts, obliges.

Allen, of course, ends up at a Klan rally, where he gives himself away by “pledging” 50 dollars for the cause in the manner Jews donate at Temple during Rosh Hashana and other holidays. Facing the noose, Allen says:

And suddenly my whole life passed before my eyes. I saw myself as a kid again, in Kansas, going to school, swimming at the swimming hole, and fishing, frying up a mess-o-catfish, going down to the general store, getting a piece of gingham for Emmy-Lou. And I realize it’s not my life. They’re gonna hang me in two minutes, the wrong life is passing before my eyes.

https://pjmedia.com/election/tyler-o-neil/2020/10/16/vernon-jones-antifa-are-burning-black-businesses-and-nobody-holds-joe-biden-accountable-n1064598

On Friday, three prominent black supporters of President Donald Trump condemned Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s record on the black community in a press call. Trump campaign Senior Advisor Katrina Pierson, Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones (D), and former NFL player Herschel Walker each claimed that Donald Trump “has done more for us in 47 months than Joe Biden has done in 47 years in public service.”

Toward the end of the call, Jones condemned Biden for refusing to condemn antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters and slammed the media for not asking Biden about them.

“Antifa are burning black businesses… and nobody holds Joe Biden accountable for that,” Jones declared. He lamented that “more black lives have been killed as the result of these riots and looting and shooting” than from police shootings of unarmed black men “but no one asks him about that.”

Instead, “the liberal media was calling it ‘peaceful protest.’” Jones called this a “black eye on journalism.”

Indeed, the destructive George Floyd riots have disproportionately damaged black communities in Kenosha, Wisc., Minneapolis, and Chicago. The riots destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments. At least 26 Americans have died in the riots, most of them black.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/10/2020_the_cancel_america_election.html

THE KLINGENSTEIN VIDEO: https://f.io/C6ITyQwd

I’m a pretty quiet guy. I love politics, I’ve volunteered for and worked on campaigns, and I’m not shy about being either Christian or conservative — but I’m also not bombastic, egotistical, or easily offended. Donald Trump embodies each of these three characteristics, putting his personality on the opposite side of the spectrum from mine. I worked hard against him in the 2016 primaries, and couldn’t pull the lever in the general that year, leaving it blank and voting down-ticket.

But in two weeks, I’m going to pull the lever to help President Donald Trump win re-election. The alternative is a radicalized Democratic Party that uses Joe Biden as a puppet, believes America is racist, and wants to destroy our individual rights — with social media and mainstream media as willing accomplices, and an enfeebled Republican Party as the emasculated opposition.

I was already going to vote for Trump, but a recent speech by Tom Klingenstein has given more juice to the choice. I’d never heard of Klingenstein — he’s a businessman and Chairman of the Claremont Institute, but there isn’t a lot online about him. But his speech about why Trump is the man for our moment has 700,000 views after being posted by American Greatness and being endorsed by Rush Limbaugh. Real Clear Politics published the transcript, and Twitter is abuzz with Klingenstein’s message.

Klingenstein’s message in both the viral speech and a more recent one is clear, concise, and heartfelt: that Trump might not get his vote in another time. But for 2020, the choice is stark: BLM riots have been endorsed by Democrats while most Republicans are muted or even silent in response. Churches have acquiesced to bans on attendance while bars, liquor stores, and BLM protests are open for business. And the child abuse called “transgenderism” is gaining steam, with Biden calling it the “civil rights issue of our time.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-tax-whopper-11602888777?mod=opinion_lead_pos2

Joe Biden got a pass from the media for the myriad whoppers he told about his policies in Thursday night’s town hall. But one that we can’t let slide was his claim that he only intends to make people earning more than $400,000 “pay what they did in the Bush Administration—39.6%.”

Where to begin? The Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 cut the top individual tax rate to 35% from 39.6%. A 2012 deal between the Obama Administration and House Republicans extended the Bush tax cuts for the middle class while returning the top rate to 39.6% for those earning more than $400,000, plus the 0.9% Medicare surtax imposed by ObamaCare.

Republicans in 2017 lowered the top rate to 37%, and Mr. Biden says he would merely return the rate to where it was before the GOP tax cuts. But that’s before add-ons. He would also restore the Pease deduction limitation for high earners, which tacks on the equivalent of 1.2%.

He also wants to extend the Social Security 12.4% payroll tax to income over $400,000. The current cap is $137,700. Half of the payroll tax is paid by the employer, but economists know it’s still a tax on labor income, which means workers. The top marginal rate would rise to 57% including 3.8% in Medicare taxes, and that’s before state taxes that run as high as 13.3% in California.