Laura Hollis began her Jan. 31 WorldNetDaily column with a little rant:
Virtually everything the Democratic Party does these days is grounded in some sort of deceit. That’s true of a lot of politics generally, and Republicans have their own cowardly versions of it, but the Democrats have made it their modus operandi.
She then purported to offer evidence of this:
First, the use of mobs.
The violent protests taking place in Minnesota right now purport to be about opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but the timing is convenient. Citizen journalist Nick Shirley shocked the country a few weeks ago when he revealed that hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer monies have been given to fraudulent “businesses” owned by Somali immigrants in Minnesota. In my column two weeks ago, I wrote that these transfers are part of a modern-day Marxist scheme of wealth redistribution from Americans to the world’s poor. These highly organized “protest” events have been ginned up by those who want to distract the public’s attention away from the money laundering that is taking place under the guise of government “grants” to nonexistent day care centers, adult care facilities and health care transportation companies. And investigative journalist Cam Higby has produced substantial evidence that government officials may be helping to organize and coordinate the violence.
This is something of a pattern.
The peaceful protests in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, were infiltrated by activists whose role it was to foment chaos and violence. This would temporarily shut down the Electoral College vote count that was going on at the Capitol, where several state delegations intended to lodge objections to the presidential election results in their states. More saliently, the J6 violence turned the public’s attention away from claims of election irregularities in multiple states and enabled the Biden administration to dismiss those claims and characterize the protest as an “insurrection,” and the protesters as “insurrectionists.”
As we documented, no right-wing “news” outlet made any effort to fact-check Shirley’s claims, and Higby is just one of a number of right-wing videomakers who have invaded Minneapolis in order to portray the city as lawless. And as we’ve also documented, the FBI officers actually joined the protesters after the riot, not during it, and Hollis offers no evidence that any “activists” took part in the riot or that any claim about “election irregularities in multiple states” was valid — meaning that those people were, in fact, insurrectionists.
Hollis then bizarrely claimed the the riots after George Floyd’s death were staged to draw attention away from COVID:
The riots of summer 2020 – purportedly spontaneously erupting in response to the death of George Floyd in police custody (again, in Minneapolis) – are another example of creating civil unrest to obscure important facts the public should be focusing on. Despite public health lockdowns ordered in cities across the country in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, protests that subsequently turned into riots were permitted to take place. The violence, arson, destruction of property, widespread injuries and dozens of deaths conveniently moved the national conversation away from the issue of the origin of SARS-CoV-2, whether it had emerged from the International Virology Lab in Wuhan, China (as it is now almost universally acknowledged to have done), and whether the United States had been funding so-called “gain of function” research – the process of trying to modify animal-borne viruses to see if they can be made to jump species to humans – which government documentation definitely shows we were.
In other words, if the Left’s machinations are threatened with widespread exposure, it’s time for the latest edition of Rent-A-Mob. (Comes complete with premade signs, irate white people and lyrics for recommended chants. Molotov cocktails and vehicles for ramming law enforcement sold separately.)
Hollis offered no proof of any of this, or that a police officer killed Floyd specifically to divert attention away from the origins of COVID (her conspiracy theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese lab has yet to be proven.
Still, Hollis continued to rant:
But mobs and mayhem aren’t the only devices Democrats use to get their way. There’s also the increasingly popular use of candidates who run as “moderates,” only to serve as willing patsies after being elected for the most extreme leftists in the party – as Virginians are now finding out to their chagrin.
[…]Virginians who voted for Spanberger’s opponent, former Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, certainly did not vote for this. But there are those who say Spanberger never professed support for any of these policies during the campaign, and so no one truly voted for them.
With respect, Spanberger’s vapidity was on display for all to see in the debate with Earle-Sears. When asked perfectly logical questions, Spanberger stood like a stroke victim, silent, staring straight ahead, unmoving, unresponsive. And was no one (in Virginia, of all places) paying attention to the four years of the “Biden administration”? Spanberger is like former President Joe Biden was and like so many Democrat politicians are today: a plant; a puppet; an empty vessel who will do what she is told.
Hollis would never say that people who didn’t vote for Donald Trump never professed support for war with Iran or a massive ballroom at the White House (or the destruction of the entire East Wing to make room for it).