Brian Sussman

Biden kicks off campaign with Charlottesville Hoax, paints Trump as racist

The establishment media have repeated lies about Donald Trump being a racist so often that some of their narratives are believed as true.  The most outrageous of these lies is the “Charlottesville Hoax,” which contends the President described the Neo-Nazis who also attended a rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017, as “fine people.”

What a joke.

Such a joke that Joe Biden is using it as the hook to launch his presidential campaign.  He employed it in a video.

The event in Charlottesville centered around the removal of an iconic, long-standing statue of Robert E. Lee in a park bearing his name.  Besides removing the statue, changing the name of the park was also being proposed.  A rally was assembled to protest these sought-after changes and a variety of groups showed up, including Neo-Nazis. Events escalated and a woman was actually killed in the violent melee that ensued.

At a press event, President Trump openly shared his thoughts on the tragic events in Charlottesville.  Here are his actual words:

“Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group.  But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.  You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did.  You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”

After another question from the press, Trump said:

“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.” 

So when he says “very fine people” he is referring to a specific group of protesters, and not only does he keep emphasizing this, but he gets more specific about them:

But not all of those people were Neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists, by any stretch. Those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue, Robert E. Lee. So this week it’s Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson’s coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you all—you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop? But they were there to protest—excuse me. You take a look, the night before, they were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.

And later in the press conference:

There were people in that rally, and I looked the night before. If you look, they were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I’m sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day, it looked like they had some rough, bad people—neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them. But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest and very legally protest, because you know—I don’t know if you know, they had a permit.

The left hates context.

Coming Soon: California Schools to Allow “Willful Disobedience” in Classroom

Prepare for an onslaught of teachers taking an early retirement.

And get ready for a generation void of discipline and the ability to interact properly in society.

The California State Senate has voted to ban schools and principals from suspending students for “willful defiance” of teachers, staff, and administrators.

The Senate approved SB 419 this week by a vote of 30-8.  It moves to the Assembly next and there aren’t enough conservatives in that legislative body to stop it.

A similar bill was vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown last legislative session, but it’s likely the new guy in the Governor’s Mansion, Gavin Newsome, will sign it.

Under the new version (Senate Bill 419), students in grades 4-12 wouldn’t be suspended for disrupting school activities or willfully defying school authorities, including teachers and staff.  The law would apply to both public and charter schools.

Students could still be suspended or expelled for other acts, including threatening violence, bringing a weapon or drugs to school, or damaging school property. Teachers could also still be allowed to “suspend pupils from class for the day and the following day who disrupt school activities or otherwise willfully defied valid authority of supervisors, teachers, administrators, school officials, or other school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties.”

Also, as part of the proposed law, superintendents or principals would be asked to provide alternatives to suspension or expulsion that are “age appropriate and designed to address and correct the pupil’s specific misbehavior.”

This would likely entail placing the disobedient students in a holding room where they could sit before a computer screen and watch YouTube videos or play video games.

What’s driving this?  It’s called “Restorative Justice.”

In the 2015-16 school year, 96,421 students suspended for willful defiance.  Willful defiance suspensions accounted for 24% of total suspensions statewide that school year. Willful defiance suspensions made up 20% of all suspensions in the 2016-17 school year, and 14% in the 2017-18 school year.

African-American students made up 5.6% of enrollment in California schools in 2017-18, but accounted for 15.6% of willful defiance suspensions. Conversely, white students made up 23.2% of statewide enrollment but made up only 20.2% of willful defiance suspensions.

Clearly, the racial activists claim, California’s educational system is inherently racist.

The bill’s author, Senator Nancy Skinner (D-9th District), previously talked about the need for the bill, saying: “Under this highly subjective category, students are sent to an empty home, with no supervision, and denied valuable instructional time for anything from failing to turn in homework, not paying attention, or refusing to follow directions, taking off a coat or hat, or swearing in class.”

Pilot programs have been conducted in Orange County and Butte County and would provide the framework for the new statewide system. Several school districts, in San Francisco Unified, Los Angeles Unified, and Oakland Unified have already banned school from issuing willful defiance suspensions and expulsions

UPDATE: Social Security and Medicare are set to go insolvent in 16-years; but it doesn’t matter because AOC says we’ll all be dead from global warming in 12-years

This week on The KSFO Morning Show’s Whistle-Blower Wednesday edition, we heard from a caller named Dave, in San Mateo, who brought forth the punchline of week.

Katie Green and I were discussing the financial future of Social Security, which looks grim.  At the current pace the Social Security Trust Fund will be financially upside-down by 2035.  This means the program would be forced to impose across-the-board cuts of 20 percent to all beneficiaries.

Adding to the problem is the fact that no one in Congress is proposing a fix.

That’s when Dave called-in.

“Dave in San Mateo, you’re on the air.”

“Yeah, Brian and Katie, I know you just said Social Security will be insolvent in 16-years, but what’s the big deal?  Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says because of climate change the planet only has 12 more years, so we’ll all be dead by then.”

And then, like a perfect caller, Dave hung-up on himself.

It’s not a sexy topic, but Social Security and Medicare are set to go broke, and sooner than you think

In 16-years Social Security will be insolvent, which means we’re probably 15 years away from Congress deciding that it’s a crisis.

Currently Social Security provides income to about 67 million Americans.  About 47 million of them are over age 65, and the majority of the rest are (supposedly) disabled.

If nothing changes, the Social Security Trust Fund will be financially upside-down by 2035.  This means the program would be forced to impose across-the-board cuts of 20 percent to all beneficiaries.

By that time, some parts of Medicare will already be unable to cover the full cost of benefits.

The official Social Security and Medicare trustees’ report, released Monday, shows that the trust fund for Medicare Part A, which covers hospital and nursing home costs, will be insolvent by 2026.  Medicare Part B, which covers routine medical care like visits to the doctor, and Medicare Part D, which covers prescription drugs, are on more solid footing and will remain solvent “indefinitely.”

Insolvency is not the same as bankruptcy. By 2026 and 2034, respectively, Medicare and Social Security will not have enough money to pay the full cost of their obligations, but that’s not the same as saying they’ll have no money at all.

Tragically, no one on Capital Hill wants to address these looming issues.  President Donald Trump has promised not to touch Social Security while he’s in office, while Democrats are popping off about “Medicare for all” which would pile on huge new obligations for an entitlement program that is already sinking.

More troubling news: in 2017 there were 2.8 workers for every Social Security recipient. That’s down from 3.3 in 2007, and way down from the 5.1 workers per beneficiary that existed in 1960.

Debate Me, Al Gore – The Video

I produced this video in 2010 to promote my forthcoming book, “Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam.”

However, the publisher didn’t think my humor, sarcasm, and nervy confidence would be good for sales and begged me to NOT release it.

So, I shelved the video.

Probably a good thing too, because the book became an overnight bestseller.

Anyway, nine years later I’m releasing the video;  just in time for Vladimir Lenin’s annual birthday celebration, aka, Earth Day.

Enjoy!