By now, we are all aware of the fact that in an attempt to blame President Trump for all the things that are wrong in America, Jussie Smollett falsely accused two white MAGA-hat wearing white guys of beating him up and an Indian named Nathan Phillips lied about being threatened by a bunch of Christian high school students.

The setting for Smollett was Chicago and, for Phillips, Washington, D.C. But similar events have been taking place since 2016 in places ranging from Greenville, Mississippi, to Santa Monica, California, and from Lawnside, New Jersey, to Rehoboth, Delaware.

As reported in The New American, most of the falsely reported incidents involved black people like Smollett and homosexuals, again like Smollett, accusing white bigots of threatening their lives and inflicting what turn out to be self-administered cuts and bruises. Not everyone is as rich as Smollett, who was able to hire a couple of friends to make his claims slightly more convincing.

In a few cases, it was Muslims who were out to trash the image of Trump and his supporters.

In what was one of the more revolting cases, Nikki Joy, a woman claiming to be a man, set fire to her own Jackson, Michigan, home, killing her two dogs and three cats, because she/he felt there wasn’t enough attention paid to the plight of transgenders.

The creeps all wanted, in the words of a 20-year-old black man in Malden, Massachusetts, who lied about being threatened with lynching, because he wanted “to raise awareness about things that are going on around the country.”

And, so, he, and all the other psychos suffering from Trump derangement syndrome, did just that. Just not in the way they intended.

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You would think that those who wish to defeat Trump in 2020 would at least try to appear to be in sync with the majority of voters. But in order to separate themselves from the crowd of contenders in the race for their party’s nomination, they feel compelled to say the most outlandish things.

For instance, most Americans agree with me that convicted felons should not be allowed to vote in our elections. Some might disagree with my contention that even after they get out of prison, they should be disenfranchised. That’s because I scoff at the notion that by serving out their sentence they have paid their debt to society. Their debt is not to society; their debt is to those they molested, robbed and raped. And that debt can never be repaid.

A prison sentence is a punishment, but it is not and should not be confused with absolution.

But Bernie Sanders insists that even those who are still behind bars deserve to vote because “It’s inherent in our democracy.”

No, Bernie, what’s inherent in our democracy is that even a schmuck who was in his intellectual dotage 60 years ago is permitted to run for the highest office in the land.

When Kamala Harris was asked if she agreed with Sen. Sanders that even the Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, should be allowed to vote in the 2020 presidential election, she said: “Let’s have that conversation.”

Okay, let’s. I say that mass murderers don’t get to vote. End of the conversation.

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After I shared my story about refusing to let my young son and nephew beat me at games, I expected to hear from at least a few people who disagreed with my approach. As it happens, I only heard from one person, who thought that at least in the case of the 13-year-old nephew, I should have given him some tips as to how to improve his approach to tennis and that I should have made some encouraging remarks about the stronger points of his game.

I guess because I didn’t go into detail, he leapt to the conclusion that in my desire to win, I ridiculed the kid’s attempts on the court.

While I don’t recall complimenting him because there was no aspect of his game that warranted it, and I certainly didn’t want to patronize him with obvious lies, I treated him with respect. At least until, fairly early on, he began to openly display his frustration and anger through his lack of sportsmanship.

I suppose in a day and age when kids expect to receive medals and ribbons for merely participating, I shouldn’t have been too surprised. Besides, his parents are Bay-area liberals. His mother, my niece, is a social worker.

With the deck stacked against him that way, it’s probably a surprise that the kid even knew which end of the tennis racket to hold.

Roger Kovaciny had an interesting system to share. “I taught various grandkids to play checkers and chess by handicapping them so they had a decent chance to beat me. At first, they would have a full complement of chess pieces and I would only have pawns and a king. Once I started losing half the games, I would add a piece.”

Al Moon reports: “My father often let me win card and board games and I hated it. I felt he didn’t respect me. It was a form of cheating. My mother never let me win. Even if I only won 30% of the time against her, it made the game a challenge and fun.”

Patrice Hartung weighed in, saying: “If a child is under, say, age 8, maybe sometimes you throw a game to keep the child happy and willing to play. But beyond that, children need to learn that they can’t always win, and that sometimes they just need to work harder to get the results they want.”

Ray Kasey added: “It does the kids no good to let them win all the time because when the real challenges of life come at them, they’ll end up suicidal rather than just upset.”

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Just about the only disappointment I have with President Trump is that he has followed the example of a century’s worth of presidents who have been unwilling to call the Turks on the carpet for murdering 1.5 million Armenians by referring to it an atrocity, but not as genocide.

I assumed that just as he was the first president to have the guts to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Trump would finally be the one to accede to the wishes of Armenian survivors and call a genocide by its rightful name. Frankly, I don’t understand his reluctance. Turkey may have retained its membership in NATO in spite of its Islamic tyrant having close ties to Russia, but Recep Erdogan is no friend of the United States.

On the other hand, Donald Trump can take the lion’s share of credit for Bibi Netanyahu’s winning his fifth term as prime minister of Israel. In fact, probably the only person who could defeat Netanyahu these days is a goy named Trump.

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It occurred to me that authors like George Orwell and Aldous Huxley used to write fiction about dystopian societies led by tyrants. They were hellish places where the individual had no rights, no freedoms and no liberty.

In works like “Animal Farm,” “1984” and “Brave New World,” we were warned what could happen if we allowed the wrong people or, in the case of “Animal Farm,” the wrong animals, to gain control.

Apparently, we took our eye off the ball because in most places on earth, very bad people are running things. It was only thanks to a miracle that Hillary Clinton was prevented from putting the final nail in the coffin devised by Barack Obama.

In 2019, there are two death cults threatening the world. The first is Islam, which demands that Muslims prove their devotion by killing infidels. Infidels, by the way, include everybody else, including but not limited to Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists and even agnostics.

The second cult is the Democratic party, which has made it an article of faith that woman have the absolute right to end their pregnancies by committing murder.

It’s a shame that after destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, God quit destroying large groups of despicable people. Unfortunately, those who consider themselves gods — those like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro and the Kim clan — have a taste for large scale murder, but, alas, they inevitably target decent people, not evil ones.