Hello America and how are you? I really hope your health is good, your hopes are high, and your faith is being fulfilled. I know these seem like troubling times, but if we can keep both our hands on the wheel, our food on the gas pedal, and our windshields clean, we’ll be be able to drive through this earthquake that seems to have us all trembling right now. Keeping the destination in mind and using the map in our hearts will guide us through this mess and before we know it, the upcoming election and the rest of 2020 will be behind us. I don’t think it will leave any sticky residue on us once we make it past the goal line because I feel that some of the shady characters that have been clinging on and stringing us along for their own personal gain will not be able to touch us any longer in hopes that they are kicked out of office like a burning bag of bathroom trash.
Welcome to another edition of a show that is as about as relevant to the Mainstream Media as a rocking chair is to a cat. If there is anything that can be said about the ridiculousness of our media, both social and mainstream, then it is this: they are now a tag team and working their way up to be champions of the political ring. If you have noticed anything in the past seven days, it has to be the restrictions it holds against those trying to spread facts that are being laid out to the American people, if not the world, about how crooked certain characters can be when it comes to financial gain, political favor, and obtaining their online five seconds of fame. It don’t matter how many bodies they step on, there’s always room for one more. No, I’m not talking about Hillary Clinton either. This is a whole other ballgame and we are making our way through the 9th inning, the scores are tied, and the bases are loaded.
Here’s a quick update on the Breanna Taylor case: A judge in Kentucky granted the grand jurors in the Breonna Taylor case the chance to publicly speak about the case presented to them by Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/us/breonna-taylor-grand-juror-ruling/index.html). The verdict comes after an anonymous grand juror who was on the panel sued for the right to openly speak out. This juror says that that grand jury did not have homicide charges explained to them and were only presented with wanton endangerment charges. As you may recall the case, Breonna Taylor was killed on March 13th in Louisville, Kentucky by police officers who were executing a search warrant of her apartment. Her family sued the city of Louisville and received a $12 Million Dollar settlement. Of the three officers who were at the scene, only one, Brett Hankison, was charged with “wanton endangerment” for shooting into a neighboring apartment. None of the officers were charged directly with Taylor’s death. Cameron’s office had opposed allowing grand jurors to speak openly and has previously said he would appeal any ruling that granted them the opportunity.
Something else that is in the news, but mostly one-sided. You may have heard that President Trump is urging Attorney General William Barr to investigate Joe Biden’s son before the election (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/20/trump-barr-special-prosecutor-joe-biden-hunter-biden). President Trump claims that his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has obtained information about Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine (https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/). Rudy Giuliani is the source of a laptop used for a New York Post story about Hunter Biden, but claims in the story have not been corroborated by fact-checkers. Ever since the news broke about this situation, President Trump insisted that Hunter Biden has engaged in a major act of corruption and called on Barr to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the claims. “He’s got to act. And he’s got to act fast,” according to President Trump. The story from the New York Post displayed an email that showed Hunter Biden arranging a meeting in 2015 between his (then Vice President) dad and one of his senior colleagues at corrupt energy company Burisma (https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/burisma-impeachment-trump/), which was paying him up to $83,000 a month. What I find interesting is that neither Joe Biden nor his son, Hunter, has disputed that the laptop belongs to Hunter or that the details published from the laptop is genuine. However, Joe Biden’s campaign did admit to Politico that an “informal” meeting with Burisma may have occurred (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/14/biden-campaign-lashes-out-new-york-post-429486).
This is new evidence that Joe participated in his family’s cash-for-influence scheme with shady foreign companies. Unfortunately, the mainstream media is helping the Biden family discredit the New York Post’s reporting using the usual suspects, like James Clapper, who told CNN it was “textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft.” They harassed the computer repair guy in Delaware (https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2020/10/14/meet-wilmington-repairman-who-reportedly-gave-biden-laptop-giuliani-associate/3655753001/), who turned over Hunter’s abandoned laptop and hard drive to the FBI, and they scoffed when he said he feared for his life. They ran stories smearing Rudy Giuliani as a Russian agent, because he told The Post about the laptop and identified incriminating documents on its hard drive. It’s clear that there is definitely something to hide here, but what remains to be entirely seen. I understand that there is an investigation going on, but there is also an election. Even though November 3rd is election day, many states across the country are currently taking early voting and absentee ballots. The one question that sticks out to me is why are the Biden’s not denying or putting up a fight on this? Yes, Presidential Candidate Joe Biden is making a few comments here and there, but the media is not really pushing this against them. Could it be they know that the mainstream media won’t press them too hard, so the Bidens are coming out swinging as hard? I know there are people like me who want to know the answers to this and more about how come Hunter gets a pass when it comes to the evidence that Rudy Giuliani has about him getting involved with underaged naked girls. This is important information to know because if Joe gets elected as President, Hunter will obviously get to be in the White House and who knows what else he would bring on.
And it didn’t help that Social Media was heavily involved in trying to put down this story too. Hunter Biden became a top news story on Facebook and Twitter last week, despite attempts by the companies to limit its spread, according to NewsWhip data reported (https://www.axios.com/new-york-post-hunter-biden-facebook-twitter-censor-bf8d9f32-f8cb-444e-bc12-c3b5e8694e84.html). Data shows the story was liked, commented on, and shared repeatedly to the tune of 2.59 million interactions across both platforms. NewsWhip says the story had the sixth most engagement of any story in October, though it fell short of other major moments like President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis and Eddie Van Halen’s death. Though Facebook and Twitter have publicized attempts to limit improperly sourced or misleading information in the lead-up to the November election, there appear to be limits to their power. The social media giants’ early efforts to prevent the spread of the unsubstantiated story ended up becoming a major story in itself, leading to allegations of censorship or favoritism by conservatives. Fact-checkers have spent the past week analyzing New York Post articles sourced by materials provided by Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon.
Recently, President Trump abruptly ended an interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes.” A source told CNN that Trump was frustrated because he was being asked too many questions about coronavirus. Trump later tweeted that the interview was “FAKE and BIASED” (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1318675787973840896). He also tweeted a short video clip of the CBS News Interview host not wearing a mask (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1318644698341408769). In a separate tweet, President Trump shared photos of White House press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany showing the “60 Minutes” interviewer a heavy book supposedly filled with the Trump administration’s health care achievements (https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1318979804490850304?s=21). President Trump and Former Vice President Joe Biden will face off later tonight in the final presidential debate, which will take place in Nashville, Tennessee. This will be an interesting event to say the least that can be seen on just about every TV news media outlet. This one will be slightly different because of the new rule that will be in place: to mute the microphones of President Trump and Candidate Biden as the other gives two-minute opening statements at the beginning of each of six topics during the debate in Nashville. But the microphones of both candidates will be on during the “open discussion” portion of the 90-minute debate, the commission said. The moderator, Kristen Welker (https://www.today.com/about/kristen-welker-co-anchor-weekend-today-nbc-news-white-house-t171372), who is the co-anchor of Weekend TODAY and the NBC News White House Correspondent, has been tasked with returning any time taken up by interruptions to the other candidate. She won’t have the ability to cut the microphones during this period if one candidate speaks over the other. Again, I say this is going to be an interesting debate.
Here’s another interesting development within the education system on an academic level: the University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work is offering a special two-hour webinar series in which white participants are instructed to undergo a 12-step plan, very similar to Alcoholics Anonymous, in order to “recover and reclaim our full humanity” (https://practicetransformation.umn.edu/webinars/part-i-recovery-from-white-conditioning-building-anti-racist-practice-and-community/). The 12-step plan is outlined in Part 1 of the series, titled, “Recovery from White Conditioning: Building Anti-Racist Practice and Community,” and is taught by therapist and university alumnus, Cristina Combs. According to the project’s website, Cristina Combs, a white woman, developed the plan “after years of struggling to navigate the role and presence of whiteness in her personal, academic, and professional journeys.” She goes on to say in an interview, “In this model, we are, in fact, centering whiteness, but we are centering it differently: to expose it, study its patterns, and to transform its violent legacy” (https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-of-minnesota-lecture-features-12-step-recovery-program-for-whiteness/). The university’s website indicates the lecture can earn viewers continuing education units. Cristina Combs said her program helps people recover from their whiteness.
The instructor began the lecture by acknowledging that “I am on traditional Dakota land,” the territory of a Native American tribe which settled in Minnesota. She also acknowledged “George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and all of the other lives stolen from families and communities and our world due to police brutality and state-sanctioned violence.” At the beginning of the webinar, she asks “What comes to mind when you hear the term ‘white supremacy?’” As an answer to the question, she displayed a slide titled “The face of white supremacy.” Under the title were pictures of Ku Klux Klan members as well as white nationalists in Charlottesville. She then took those images off and put a picture of her own face on the screen. Before diving into her 12-step model, the instructor prefaced it by quoting feminist author Bell Hooks (https://www.britannica.com/biography/bell-hooks) in saying that “‘imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy’ [is] the power structure underlying the social order.” The 12 steps of “Recovery from White Conditioning” include:
Step 1 – “We admitted that we had been socially conditioned by the ideology of white supremacy.”
A video of a young white girl who was shown drawings of a cartoon child in varying pigments of skin color is shown. When asked which ones had positive characteristics like “pretty” or “smart,” she would point to the white figures. When asked about negative characteristics like “mean” or “ugly,” she pointed to the dark figures. Then the instructor says “We have been socially conditioned. [White supremacy] is in us. It will always be here. We will always have to work against it in this journey of transformation”.
Step 2: “We came to believe that we could embrace our ignorance as an invitation to learn.”
Cristina Combs decried the fact that people make statements like: “I don’t understand why Black Lives Matter has to protest on the highway.” “If, however, a white person says, ‘I don’t have lived experience that informs me of a risk so great that I would put my body on the line…I have so much I need to learn. I wonder where I can go and seek that knowledge.’ The route is the same: the ignorance, the things that we don’t know,” she said.
Step 3: “We develop support systems to keep us engaged in this work.”
“Far too often people rush in [to the work of social justice], make a mistake, and then turn away. Our commitment is to build support systems and practices that keep us coming back to our core humanity and then showing up in a spirit of accountability and solidarity forward,” the instructor said.
Step 4: “We journeyed boldly inward, exploring and acknowledging ways in which white supremacist teachings have been integrated into our minds and spirits.”
A worksheet is displayed for people to fill out in order to examine how “white supremacy has negatively impacted” topics like “My Understanding of History, My Social Network, How I Interact with People of Color, and (Micro)aggressions I Perpetrate.” According to Combs, the prefix in “(micro)aggressions” is in parentheses due to the fact that “I am done calling them ‘micro,’ because they hurt.”
Step 5: “We confessed our mistakes and failings to ourselves and others.”
“We know that we are gonna make mistakes, and so Step 5 is about coming back and sharing that and learning the lessons and sharing them with others,” Cristina Combs said.
Step 6: “We were entirely ready to deconstruct previous ways of knowing, as they have been developed through the lens of white supremacy.”
Cristina Combs displayed a meme of Morpheus from The Matrix saying, “What if I told you it’s ok to change your opinion based on new information.” According to to the instructor, “Step 6 is really about just acknowledging and sitting with that.”
Step 7: “We humbly explored new ways of understanding…proactively seeking out new learning and reconstructing a more inclusive sense of reality.”
A list of authors is shown who can help with this step, including Audre Lorde (https://alp.org/about/audre), Chimamanda Adichie (https://www.chimamanda.com/about-chimamanda/), and Ta-Nehisi Coates (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ta-Nehisi-Coates).
Step 8: “We committed ourselves to ongoing study of our racial biases, conscious or unconscious, and our maladaptive patterns of white supremacist thinking.”
According to the instructor, many members call this step “the slimy step.” However, she said, that slime( a.k.a. people’s unconscious biases) are necessary to face. She quoted James Baldwin (https://www.biography.com/writer/james-baldwin) in saying, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Then she compared this process to tracking the “automatic negative thoughts” of people who are struggling with depression.
Step 9: “We develop strategies to counteract our racial biases.”
In this step, Cristina Combs discusses thinking about people of color positively. She said that one of her members, when she sees black people out in public, will repeat out loud to herself, “Hello my brother, Hello my sister, Hello my sibling.” This repetition, she said, is private and non-disruptive to those around her.
Step 10: “We embraced the responsibility of focusing on our impact, more than our intentions, in interactions with people of color.”
The instructor included a passage from Ken Hardy (https://artsmidwest.org/sites/default/files/KenHardyTasks_Handout.pdf) called “Intentions: Province of the Privileged.” She said that it is unacceptable that “[white people] want to sit and clarify that we didn’t mean it and someone else misunderstood while our BIPOC [black, indigenous, and people of color] siblings are living with the impact.”
Step 11: “We engage in daily practices of self-reflection.”
“Forever and always, for the rest of our lives, we can notice and study where our issues are and how we’re gonna be more courageous the next day,” the instructor said of this step.
Step 12: “We committed ourselves to sharing this message with our white brothers, sisters, and siblings…in order to build a supportive recovery community and to encourage personal accountability within our culture.”
“Step 12 is about saying, ‘We have to go and get our people and work on our communal transformation,” she said. She encouraged attendees to ask themselves: “Who are your heroes? What are your songs, traditions, rituals, rules of admonishment?”
In what seems to be a growing trend that we did predict, not only on Bravo Sierra with Big John, but also on The Big John Show is that more of elected officials are going have attempts of kidnapping or worse done on them. This past Friday night, a 59-year-old, named Meredith Dowty, in Wichita, Kansas was arrested for allegedly threatening to kidnap and kill the city’s Mayor because of his opposition to a pandemic-related health ordinance requiring people to wear face masks in indoor public areas (https://www.cbs19news.com/story/42779070/police-say-wichita-man-arrested-accused-of-threatening-mayor). The Wichita Police Department confirmed that officers had taken 59-year-old Meredith Dowty, a retired Wichita City firefighter, into custody after being alerted to threatening statements directed at the Democrat Mayor, Brandon Whipple. According to reports, the Mayor learned of the threats after being read a series of text messages that were sent to another city official inquiring about the mayor’s address and containing “a detailed threat against his life.” The Mayor said “he said he was going to kidnap me and slash my throat and he needed my address because I needed to see the hangman — me and everyone who, something about tyranny” . The suspect is a well-known local musician who plays guitar and harmonica when performing under the name “Cathead” with a reputation of entertaining numerous gigs in the Wichita bar and nightclub scene (https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article246513655.html).
Here’s something that is interesting, in 2008, Meredith Dowty was honored by the Wichita City Council for saving a Wichita police officer’s life after the officer was shot in the line of duty. This arrest comes on the heels of the recent FBI arrest of several men in Michigan for allegedly plotting to kidnap the state’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer from her vacation home before next month’s presidential election. The group of men, part of an armed militia group known as the Wolverine Watchmen, are accused of organizing in encrypted chat groups, meeting at various locations to train with weapons, and attempting to acquire explosives as part of the plot to kidnap the governor. The alleged threat entailed extensive plotting, including several surveillance trips, a plan to hinder police response by blowing up a bridge with explosive charges, and purchasing supplies—including an 800,000-volt taser. A Video of their “training exercises” is now online (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jllwlidfuhc&feature=emb_title). A federal judge found that there was enough evidence to support a conspiracy charge against five of the so-called “militia” members (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michigan-militia-charges-evidence-federal-judge/). The FBI also said there was a potential threat as well against Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam. As it’s been pointed out before on Bravo Sierra with Big John and The Big John Show, it’s no coincidence that these cities and states on lockdown are elected Democratic officials. It’s easy to say that the people who are plotting these kidnappings and torture are right wing nuts, but there might be more to that just than political opposition. It’s also been pointed out that people are getting tired of the extensions to these so-called “COVID-19 Safety Concerns”, all in the name of trying to stop the spread of the Chinese Virus.
Hey, speaking of COVID-19 Safety Concerns, you folks in Michigan better vote for Joe Biden to be President of the United States if you are weary of coronavirus lockdowns and the fallout from socioeconomic restrictions related to the pandemic. That’s according to the Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. “If you’re tired of lockdowns, or you’re tired of wearing masks, or you wish you were in church this morning or watching college football or your kids were in-person instruction, it is time for change in this country, and that’s why we’ve got to elect Joe Biden,” Governor Whitmer said during an interview on “Meet The Press” this past weekend (https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1317835010599227392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1317835010599227392%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3%2Ccontainerclick_1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Fwhitmer-lockdowns-masks-church-biden). In other words, she has passed the blame of her state restrictions onto President Trump. Even though she is the one who keeps issuing these restrictions that have obviously upset her states citizens, but she isn’t taking responsibility, herself, for her own actions. So why does she feel she can get away with making these comments when facts show that she is in charge of how her state is managed, not President Trump. He’s telling her to open up the state because the people are frustrated with her? I don’t have an answer for that, but I will say that it seems like a conspiracy or agreement between several democratic governors across several states that all have an agenda to hold their state’s people down or prisoner in their own homes until they get the current President of the United States out. They are refusing to enforce the laws and protect their people from suffering economically to not let them provide for their families.
In part of her interview, Governor Whitmer said President Trump is inciting “domestic terrorism” due to “lock her up” chants at his Michigan rally last Saturday (10/17) night and that his words are “incredibly disturbing” (https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-michigan-gretchen-whitmer-detroit-bc48f1abda98decd04e656dc3d9e8207). This from the woman who earlier this month accused President Trump of being “complicit” with “hate groups”, not unlike the group federal authorities arrested for allegedly plotting to kidnap her and overthrow the state government (https://www.theblaze.com/news/michigan-gov-whitmer-takes-aim-at-trump-in-reaction-to-foiled-kidnapping-plot). I’m left shaking my head over her comments. This Governor is the most vocal of all the other Governors who are locking down their states, including California’s Governor Newsom. Although, I do have to say that she may be suffering from a reality check after Michigan’s attorney general indicated that she would no longer enforce Governor Whitmer’s executive orders on the coronavirus after the state Supreme Court ruled the emergency powers that the governor seized were unconstitutional, a ruling that Governor Whitmer was not happy with, to say the least (https://www.scribd.com/document/478468064/Supreme-Court-Decision#from_embed?campaign=SkimbitLtd&ad_group=88890X1542029Xbe710f24374cb8a9e9b7b904a0ffd2dc&keyword=660149026&source=hp_affiliate&medium=affiliate).
Well, we’ll sure we’ll be hearing about the fallout from what is going to happen between President Trump and Joe Biden as they are going to square off during 90 minutes at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, at 9 p.m Eastern Standard Time tonight on NBC TV. This, my friends, will be another trainwreck, plain crash, and in a verbal demolition derby. The moderator for the final debate is NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker, another huge Democratic supporter. My guess is that she will be leading Candidate Joe Biden, just like Chris Wallace did in the previous Presidential debate. In other words, President Trump will be arguing against two people instead of one. I guess they need to protect Joe. I hope President Trump will publicly denounce White Supremacist and organizations at the beginning of the debate so that will take the argument out of the way of other, more important, issues that need to be discussed such as Joe Biden’s connection to his son, Hunter, Russia / Ukraine scandal that was proven by the recently released emails (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-to-press-biden-on-hunter-biden-email-stories-if-debate-moderator-doesnt-adviser-says). However, I expect it to be a barn burning circus when it’s all said and done. The mainstream media is going to fly off the handle and get stupid over the smallest details to cause a distraction from what the Leftist want to keep hidden. We can’t have fair debates anymore, no, got to make it a spectacle to keep people confused on what the real issues are. Come on, Lord forbid we actually vote with our conscience / bibles / faith to elect the better person for the most important job in the land to run our country.