GREAT MOMENTS IN AMERICAN "JOURNALISM"

Democratic Party Steno Pool columnist lies through his teeth.

UPDATE: They're just making crap up now.  American "journalism" is to actual journalism what pro wrestling is to actual sports.

TATER?

ALL you have to do is TRY to be even SLIGHTLY objective and we'd all stop laughing at you but you can't even do that.  "Reliable Sources," my ass.  By the way, Katie Bear is currently dating Playboy's (male) DC political correspondent so she's learned her lesson.

 

SIC SEMPER DEMENTIA

Joe's had another episode.

UPDATE: Pots and kettles there, Early Onset. See statement above.

AND NOW...IDIOTS

Racist deadbeat dad says what?

UPDATE: This turd is a "reporter" for Yahoo News.
UPDATE: Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington, is kind of a classless dick.

UPDATE: I'm going to need to hear both sides.

MUST CREDIT @COMFORTABLYSMUG

WHAT'S OLD IS NEW AGAIN

Molechianity.  Video at the link.

MUGGED BY REALITY

Former Republican strategist and ultra-NeverTrumper Ana Navarro-Cárdenas learns an important lesson about Democrats.

JUUUUUST A BIT OUTSIDE

150,000,000 people, give or take, Joe?  Seems a bit...excessive.

TELLS

How do you know when you've rhetorically stepped in it?

When one of your suck-ups offers spin as stupid as this.

ALL-IN

Bernie?  Ever hear the one about what you're not supposed to do if you find yourself in a hole?

AMERICAN ELECTIONS

You strike up a conversation with a woman you're attracted to.  You eventually work up the courage to ask her out using the following words or something similar to them, "Even though you're more than a little on the chunky side, want to go grab some coffee some time, tubbo?"  Do you seriously think that the two of you will be dating any time soon?

Generally speaking, American presidential candidates tend to have considerably more electoral success if they actually like the United States of America.

DIRTY POLITICAL TRICKS

AKA verbatim quoting.

FOR THERE IS NOTHING HIDDEN

That shall not be revealed.

Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of rape and sexual assault against two women and could be sent to prison for decades, sealing his dizzying fall from powerful Hollywood studio boss to archvillain of the #MeToo movement, per the AP. He was convicted on charges stemming from a 2006 sexual assault and a 2013 rape. The jury found Weinstein not guilty on the most serious charge, predatory sexual assault, that could have resulted in a life sentence. The most damaging conviction, for the sexual assault of production assistant Mimi Haleyi, would carry a maximum sentence of 25 years. After a judge ordered him sent to jail immediately, Weinstein was hauled out a side door of the courtroom with his hands cuffed in front of him.

SUN RISES IN EAST

This really shouldn't surprise anyone.

Insofar as the doddering old communist fool has been saying stupid crap for a long time.

So Hamas can buy more rockets to lob into Israel, one assumes.

UPDATE: If Bernie takes down this pot, the presidential campaign is going to be brutal.

AND NOW...IDIOTS

This always works out well.  Hitler's "paramilitary bodyguard" eventually became the SS.

 

SHE'S A YOUNG THING AND CANNOT LEAVE HER MOTHER

Not going to lie to you.  Some of you people have really let down Charming Billy.

CIVIL WAR?

Chris Matthews comes out and says it.

"I’m wondering whether the Democratic moderates want Bernie Sanders to be president," he said. "That’s maybe too exciting a question to raise. They don’t like Trump at all. Do they want Bernie Sanders to take over the Democratic Party in perpetuity? I mean, he takes it over, he sets the direction of the future of the party — maybe they’d rather wait four years and put in a Democrat that they like."

Could be.  Could also be that "moderate" Democrats are starting to become the next "pro-life" Democrats.  A fast-diminishing party minority.  Of course, Sanders' enthusiastic communism doesn't just affect the top of the ticket.

"I mean, that’s the big question, right?" Adrienne Elrod, a former senior adviser to Hillary Clinton, responded. "And you know, the narrative that you’re starting to see play out, Chris, is that there are people that are concerned, strategists that are concerned that Bernie Sanders being at the top of the ticket will force us to lose the House. I don’t necessarily think that’s the case."

We wouldn't be having this conversation, thinks Matthews, if millennials had any idea of what
happened in the world before the year 2000.

"You know, I have my own views of the word 'socialist,'" Matthews said earlier this month. "They go back to the early 1950s. I have an attitude about them. I remember the Cold War. I have an attitude towards Castro. I believe if Castro and the Reds had won the Cold War, there would have been executions in Central Park, and I might have been one of the ones getting executed, and certain other people would be there cheering, OK? So, I have a problem with people who took the other side."

The world can basically be divided into five groups of people:

(1) People who unconditionally love Donald J. Trump

(2) People who hate Donald J. Trump with the white-hot heat of a thousand suns

(3) People who didn't vote for Donald J. Trump last time and won't vote for him this fall but can and do honestly acknowledge the good he has done

(4) People who weren't going to vote for Donald J. Trump at all but very reluctantly did so anyway when they saw how matters stood with Gam-Gam

(5) People who didn't vote for Donald J. Trump last time but because of the good he has done, the hysterical reaction to him from the media and formerly-influential Never Trump pundits and the continuing efforts by his political opponents, in the government or out of it, to overturn a legal American election, among other things, will crawl over a field of broken glass that has been doused with gasoline and set on fire to vote for him this fall

As far-left as she was, most people considered Gam-Gam to be a "moderate" Democrat yet she narrowly lost.  Now the Democrats may put a communist on the top of their ticket, moving the party as far left as it is possible to go.  What do they think is going to happen?

Group (2) is in the bag while Groups (1) and (5) are completely lost.  Only (3) and (4) may still be in play.  Do the Democrats seriously believe that they lost in 2016 because the party wasn't nearly leftist enough?  Do they think that the nomination of a radical leftist like Bernie Sanders will attract any votes at all from (3) or attract back voters from (4)?  Do Democrats believe that the American people have spent their history yearning for socialist/communist governance?

WHAT GOES AROUND

If Benedict Arnold thought that betraying the Colonies to the British would make him a hero in Great Britain, he was gravely mistaken.

UPDATE: Scared.  Crapless.  Here's another former Republican consultant for Democratic voters to go ahead and completely ignore.

UPDATE: Good Lord, Jen, what on Earth did you expect?

NARCISSISM

Corrupt Illinois politician compares himself to Nelson Mandela.

Good Lord.

49ERS

Well, Cali.  You know what to do.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents reportedly violated a California state law that prohibits immigration officers from arresting undocumented immigrants without a judicial warrant on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.

Two people were arrested in the Sonoma County Superior Court in Northern California, one of whom was supposedly awaiting a hearing. This goes directly against Assembly Bill No.668, the law that Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signed in October 2019. 

The bill reiterates California’s power to regulate what occurs on state courthouse grounds, and fundamentally declares that “A person shall not be subject to civil arrest in a courthouse while attending a court proceeding or having legal business in the courthouse.”

Only the presence of a valid judicial warrant would allow officers — either ICE or other law enforcement — to arrest someone awaiting hearings in California.

ICE justified the arrests by saying that California’s law does not supersede federal law, which still grants immigration enforcement officers authority to arrest “removable aliens inside the United States.”

IT'S LIKE I KEEP SAYING

One of these days, somebody's going to die.

A northwestern Indiana couple allegedly used a car to force two teenage boys off a road, angered that the twin brothers were riding bicycles adorned with flags supporting President Donald Trump, before ripping one of the sibling's flag from his bike, police said Friday.

Hobart police said Snapchat videos helped officers secure charges against Kyren Gregory Perry-Jones, 23, and Cailyn Marie Smith, 18, in connection with a July 22 incident.

Police Capt. James Gonzales said the Hobart couple are accused of driving in their car, running the 14-year-old boys off of the road, and making threats toward them.

According to a probable cause affidavit, the boys told officers that a vehicle with a man driving and woman passenger followed them before the male driver pulled up nearby and asked one of the boys “if they were Trump supporters” - to which the boy replied that they were.

The driver then swerved at the boys, forcing them onto roadside grass to avoid being struck, according to the affidavit. The driver followed the boys before exiting the car and tearing off the flag from one of the brother's bikes, the affidavit states.

GAV'S LOSING IT

DOCTOR: An apartment doesn't seem to be working. [Grabs prescription pad and starts scribbling] I think I'll start you on a condominium.

The governor of California, ladies and gentlemen.

Cali is SO screwed.

QUESTIONS ASKED AND ANSWERED

When one of them damn near kills a sitting Republican congressman we are, Keef.

UM...OUCH?

There's a picture and video at the link but sometimes it's best to leave well enough alone.

DUMPSTER FIRE

Who's going to be the Democratic nominee in the fall?  Beats me.

PRESENTED WITHOUT COMMENT

UPDATE: Oh wait, I actually do have some comments.

From The New York Times

Experts Call New York Times Sanders Story 'Eminently Pulitzer-Worthy'

From The Washington Post

Washington Post Election Coverage Deemed 'Finest In The History Of The Country'

From the Harvard Crimson

Harvard Still Only Real University In The United States

That's all for now.

UPDATE: Okay, a couple more.

From CNN

CNN's Brian Stelter Awarded CNN's 'Journalistic Excellence' Prize

From the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times Voted Best Newspaper In The United States

IT'S A WHEEL OF GRUYERE, NOT A REBUILT MERCEDES-BENZ TRANSMISSION

I know they're not my beat anymore but how could I have let news this important slip by me?

The Rev. Bonnie A. Perry was ordained and consecrated as the 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan on Feb. 8 at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn. Perry is the first woman bishop as well as the first lesbian bishop in the diocese since it was formed in 1836; she is the 39th woman to be consecrated bishop in The Episcopal Church. More than 3,900 people have viewed the service, which was originally live-streamed and is available on-demand below.

About damned time that the Episcopal Organization did right by It's A Steinway Piano, Not A Goldfish.  TEO made It's A Watch That's Missing A Minute Hand, Not A Pair Of St. Louis BattleHawks Season Tickets wait far too long.  Better late than never, I guess.

As the last of TEO's conservatives convert to Christianity, the Episcopalian leftist triumph is complete.  Homosexual bishops?  Feh.  These days, who isn't getting one of those? 

Missouri just got one.

I suppose the next "battle" will be for a tranny bishop and that'll have to go some to be called a skirmish, never mind a battle.  Episcopalianity will fall all over itself to get that one done.

CONGRATULATIONS, RODGE

You're no longer the worst commissioner in major-league sports.

In a wide-ranging interview with ESPN's Karl Ravech, [baseball commissioner Rob] Manfred explained why he didn't punish any Astros players for their roles in the scandal, which involved illegal use of technology to decipher their opponents' signs and relay them to Houston batters in real time.

"Yeah, I understand. I understand people's desire to have the players pay a price for what went on here," Manfred said. "I think if you watch the players, watch their faces when they have to deal with this issue publicly, they have paid a price. To think they're skipping down the road into spring training, happy, that's just a mischaracterization of where we are. Having said that, the desire to have actual discipline imposed on them, I understand it and in a perfect world it would have happened. We ended up where we ended up in pursuit of really, I think, the most important goal of getting the facts and getting them out there for people to know it."

Translation: please don't ask me to make a tough choice and get someone mad at me.

But none of Houston's players was suspended or fined, and Manfred had previously announced that MLB had no plans to strip the Astros of their 2017 World Series title -- decisions that have drawn widespread criticism from the baseball community, including players from other teams.

Told you.

"In the context of my original decision, something that we talked about and analyzed extensively," said Manfred of potentially stripping the Astros of the 2017 title. "A big topic of conversation between me and my senior staff. ... It has never happened in baseball. I am a believer in the idea that precedent happens and when you deviate from that, you have to have a very good reason. The report gave people a transparent account of what went on. We put people in position to make their own judgments about the behavior that went on. That certainly has happened over the last month.

Rob's no Kennesaw Mountain Landis.  But the Astros should get used to playing in Kevlar vests this season since they'll be getting more than a few hard ones thrown into their rib cages.  They'd better not or Rob will actually get tough and he's serious.

"Give you two answers to that," Manfred told ESPN. "Have been working for some time on a memorandum about intentionally throwing at batters. It's really dangerous. Completely independent from the Astros investigation [HAW, HAW, HAW, HAW, HAW - Ed], we'll be issuing a memorandum on hit by pitches which will increase the disciplinary ramifications of that type of behavior. I think that will be a tool for dealing with whatever flows from the Houston situation. Over the next three days, I'm going to meet with all of the managers in MLB and the topic that you raise will be one of the things I intend to address with them. Simply not appropriate to express frustration you have growing out of the Astros' situation by putting someone physically at risk by throwing at them. It's simply not acceptable."

Rob, just stop talking.  Good Lord, that was embarrassing.  I haven't seen anyone that spineless since Rowan Williams.

Should Houston be stripped of its title?  As Rob says, it's never been done before.  Of course, the type of technological cheating engaged in by the 'Stros has also never been done before so we would seem to be at something of an impasse. 

While I doubt that stripping a team of its title will ever happen (this time.  I think it's an option that should stay on the table depending on the offense), I would like to see Major League Baseball adopt a probation policy like the NCAA has.  That is, if a team has been caught doing something wrong, it should be told, "You've officially been put on probation for X year/years.  You may play your schedule but you are ineligible for the play-offs or World Series during this period."

But I doubt MLB will ever do that.  You know, since it's never been done before.

Will Rob really drop the hammer on pitchers who throw at Astros players?  Please.  Try this one on.  Team Q is in serious play-off contention.  Late in the year, Q is playing Houston when Q's best pitcher decides to get in a little "in-game commentary" and plunks a 'Stro batter in the ribs.  Rob suspends the pitcher for the rest of the season.  Q misses the playoffs, costing Q players a chance at a title and the Q's owner a few shipping containers of extra revenue.

That'll go over well.

I never thought I'd live to see a worse major league sports commissioner than Roger Goodell.  But as always, with God, all things are possible.

Photo courtesy @DaveinTexas

CHOBSON'S HOICE

The Bulwark, a Never Trump "conservative" publication, has a suggestion about who to put up against the Orange Man in the fall.  What say we run a US Senator with no discernible principles of any kind, conservative or otherwise, alongside a rich, arrogant Northeastern dwarf who just got done insulting pretty much everybody in Flyover Country?

That should do it.  Hold me back.

COMES THE DAWN

Now you're getting it.

THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS

You can always bang another staffer.

FLYOVER COUNTRY

I think he knows deep down that he's not going to win this thing because Mikey augers in.  Folks in the comments at the link are ripping him two or three new ones.

Did you know that Mike's a billionaire from New York City?

UPDATE: From Mediaite.

Democratic president candidate Michael Bloomberg drew mockery from both sides of the ideological spectrum after a viral clip of him showed the billionaire media tycoon belittling farming at a 2016 business school talk and contrasting it with the “gray matter” necessary to work in the modern information economy.

Bloomberg’s 2016 comments during a sit-down discussion at Oxford’s Said Business School gained attention after a Twitter account with the handle, Pete Mentes, posted a one-minute snippet of the former New York City mayor — who has never farmed — claiming “I could teach anybody in this room” to be a farmer.

“It’s a process,” he went on to say, referring to the agrarian economy 300 years ago, “you dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on to, add water, up comes the corn.” He then said working in the modern information economy is “fundamentally different, because it’s built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets you need to learn are how to think and analyze and that is a whole degree level different, you need to have different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter.”

Combine this with what Bloomie said about taxing the poor for their own good and Bernie Sanders doesn't have a thing to worry about.

UPDATE: Mikey hits for the cycle.

UPDATE: Bloomie is CRUSHING it.

UPDATE:

STRAP ON THE OL' PITH HELMET

Maggie Haberman, who really should visit the United States some time, writes for The New York Times but apparently doesn't know that they race cars at the Daytona 500.

THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE

What it is ain't exactly clear.

Haj Amin Husseini, who was appointed by the British High Commissioner as Mufti of Jerusalem during the British Mandate for Palestine, was the link for managing the recruitment of Arab fighters to the Nazi army, the Saudi newspaper Okaz reported in an article published on Friday.

Titled “The Nazi Ikhawn (Brothers),” the article refers to the close connections between the Muslim Brotherhood leaders and the Nazis.

“Husseini, who was the representative of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine, contributed with his friend and leader Hassan al-Banna, the founder of Muslim Brotherhood, to recruiting a Muslim Brotherhood army of Egyptians and Arabs, gathered from orphanages and poor rural areas, to work under the Nazi army led by Adolf Hitler,” the newspaper said in an article written by its assistant editor-in-chief, Khalid Tashkandi.

According to Tashkandi, the number of Arabs recruited by Husseini and Muslim Brotherhood was estimated at 55,000, including 15,000 Egyptians.

The Saudi editor said there were a number of reasons why the Nazis were interested in Islam. “On the one hand, the Nazis were aware that the oppression of Muslims in a number of Islamic areas under occupation and colonial powers would facilitate the recruitment,” he said. “On the other hand, the Nazis saw the Muslims as stiff fighters ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their faith.”

Michael Milshtein, Head of the Palestinian Studies forum – Dayan Center – at Tel Aviv University, said the “harsh article in the Saudi newspaper reflects the deep political and ideological tensions between Saudi Arabia and Hamas.”

Milshtein told The Jerusalem Post that Hamas’s close relations with Qatar, “considered by the Saudis as an arch-enemy,” was another reason behind the tensions between Saudi Arabia and Hamas.

Wow.  That this article would appear anywhere at all these days is too incredible to believe because let's just say that it contains Muslim "family secrets" that decent Muslims just don't spread around. That it appeared in a Saudi newspaper, of all places, is...interesting.

MOMMY STATE

Mikey?  If you actually get the nomination, expect this to go SERIOUSLY viral, expect you to get your ass seriously kicked up one side and down the other in November, expect Trump to be seriously reelected and expect the GOP to seriously take back the House of Representatives.

Bloomberg acknowledges that his sugary soda tax would have fallen disproportionately on the poor, who also disproportionately drink sugary drinks, just as cigarette taxes disproportionately fall on the poor who disproportionately smoke cigarettes. But Bloomberg easily justifies it: "Some people say, well, taxes are regressive. But in this case, yes they are. That's the good thing about them because the problem is in people that don't have a lot of money. And so, higher taxes should have a bigger impact on their behavior and how they deal with themselves. So, I listen to people saying, 'Oh, we don't want to tax the poor.' Well, we want the poor to live longer so that they can get an education and enjoy life. And that's why you do want to do exactly what a lot of people say you don't want to do." So the "poor," according to Bloomberg, "can get an education" because they'll "live longer"?

Why not levy taxes on the rich people to deter them from engaging in "unhealthy" behavior? Why not a wealth tax on [Bloomberg's] luxury cars, diamonds, private air travel, five-star hotel suites, McMansions and pricey restaurants, you know, to help the spiritually empty rich curb their unhealthy consumerism? Through minimum wage laws, we forbid employees from earning below a certain amount. So why not a maximum wage law? After all, President Obama said, "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." 

Content edited slightly.

Seriously, Bloomie.  There's a decent chance that you don't even make it out of the primaries.  If Bernie finds out about "taxing the poor" and if he thinks he needs to use it, you're done.

Idiot.

BURN

Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder is not going to like this.

JOE, JOE, JOE

Funniest thing you'll read all day.  Or until the next time Joe says something.

UPDATE: Joe explains why the Obama Administration putting little kids in cages was a very good thing to have done then but which isn't a good thing to do now.

SEPPUKU

This is strange.  Senator Bernie Sanders (pictured here) and The Airhead have both introduced bills in the Senate and House, respectively, calling for the complete and total annihilation of the Mensheviks Democrats.

A bill introduced last week by Sen. Bernie Sanders that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez helped craft would ban fracking nationwide by 2025, according to its newly unveiled text.

The legislation would immediately prevent federal agencies from issuing federal permits for expanded fracking, new fracking, new pipelines, new natural gas or oil export terminals and other gas and oil infrastructure.

Enjoy your $50.00-a-gallon gas, folks, and I hope your winters aren't too bad.  Of course, the tens of thousands of people who lose their jobs can always find work in the soon-to-be-burgeoning firewood industry.

 

THIS JUST IN

Mikey Nats is looking at some SERIOUS time in the hole

AND NOW...IDIOTS

"Mr. Face, I believe you know Mr. Palm."

Christianity Today just published another Trump/evangelical piece and this one is monumentally dumb.  It's a particularly long piece so I'll just give you a taste.

Popular evangelical New Testament scholar Scot McKnight has written a contradictory piece defending Mark Galli and Timothy Dalrymple's call for evangelicals to remove Trump from office in Christianity Today (Galli retired as editor-in chief; Dalrymple is the new president and CEO). Entitled “Christianity Tomorrow,” it is McKnight’s first post on his new blog at CT. McKnight dredges up a dirty word, "statist," tinges it with associations of idolatry, and then uses it to beat any evangelicals who disagree with his point of view.

Although “statism” normally refers to the massive centralization of power in the state, not to attempts to curb such centralization, McKnight comes up with own self-serving definition: Statism is thinking that "the solutions to our problems are anchored to the one leading the White House." "Statism as I am using it here is the idol of making a human the world’s true ruler. Statism exalts humans and human plans and voting. Statism centers its faith in the future on who rules in D.C. Statism makes government a god."

So who are the statists par excellence in McKnight’s world? Unsurprisingly, while he several times gives lip service to coupling the evangelical left and right, he primarily targets evangelicals opposed to Trump's removal. This is another variation on the recurring (and nauseating) CT theme that evangelical Trump voters are hypocritical idolaters (a mantra since 2016, appearing too in Galli’s swan song op-ed).

Evidently, this is what Timothy Dalrymple had in mind when he said—ironically, after intimating that evangelical Trump voters have transferred “their unconditional loyalty” from God to Trump—that he would invite contributions on evangelicals and Trump from authors who engage “in a . . . charitable manner.” An inference that I am an idolater along with all other evangelical Trump voters is not my idea of charity.

This is so stupid on so many levels that it's hard to know where to start.  The authors of this piece claim to be Christians yet insulting fellow Christians simply for disagreeing with their views about the issues of the day.  And it's interesting that these tools believe that they can read the minds of conservative Christians and know exactly why they support Trump.

And why is that?  It's because conservative evangelicals have abandoned the will of God in favor of that of the Antichrist.  How do they know that?  Because the will of God should be perfectly obvious to any Christian.  That the perfect will of God just happens to be the entire leftist agenda all the way down the line is a coincidence.  Since these evangelicals don't believe that, since they support Trump, evangelicals have obviously abandoned God.

Pay attention.  Conservative Christians do NOT support Donald J. Trump for ANY religious reason whatsoever.  Although there are other factors involved (looking at you, GOP/conservative establishment), the reason why Trump won that election was not "Christian" at all. 

A great many of us finally realized this basic fact.  The President of the United States is not the Presiding Bishop of the United States.  The President of the United States is the first US government employee, the First Civil Servant if you like.

Nothing more.

HMMMMM

I know what I'm having for dinner tonight.

UPDATE: I know what I'm NOT having for dessert.

NICE

AWWWWWWWWWW

One of these two will be an Episcopal bishop by next year.  Explanation at the link.

THAT'S NOT A BUG, THAT'S A FEATURE

Kind of why we like the guy, Maizerooskie.

YOU SAY THAT LIKE IT'S A BAD THING

WAY overdue.

Once again, sweetheart. People like you work for the President of the United States. The President of the United States doesn't work for you. State doesn't run this country and has needed to be reined in for a LONG time.

ON THE ATTACK

Great news.  Because this is a travesty and anyone with a brain knows it.

The families of three female high school runners filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block transgender athletes in Connecticut from participating in girls sports, the AP reports. Selina Soule, a senior at Glastonbury High School, Chelsea Mitchell, a senior at Canton High School, and Alanna Smith, a sophomore at Danbury High School, are represented by the conservative nonprofit organization Alliance Defending Freedom. They argue that allowing athletes with male anatomy to compete has deprived them of track titles and scholarship opportunities. “Mentally and physically, we know the outcome before the race even starts," said Smith, who is the daughter of former Major League pitcher Lee Smith. “That biological unfairness doesn't go away because of what someone believes about gender identity. All girls deserve the chance to compete on a level playing field.”

UPDATE: More here.  The ACLU pushes all-in.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I wonder what kind of finger the kid has.  Glock?  HK?  Smith and Wesson?

Gun control makes you stupid.

UNCLE JOE'S LOSING IT

Does anybody know what this even means?

UPDATE: REALLY losing it.  Bring it on, Joe.  That is, if you enjoy the idea of never again safely being able to get from one end of this country to the other.

NEO-MOLECHIANISM

Cigar Store comes out for child sacrifice.  Disturbing that this tweet has over 30,000 likes.

CHARMING BILLY?

Would you like to know what Donald Trump's real military rank is?

AMERICA 101

These people work for the President.  He can fire them whenever he likes.  

HE SEEMS NICE

Might just be me but I think that if those had been Democrats in that tent, the American news media would be all over this story 24/7/365.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office arrested Gregory William Loel Timm, 27, after being identified as the person behind the wheel of a van that drove through a tent in a Walmart parking lot Saturday, where Republican volunteers were registering people to vote.

According to Lt. Larry Gayle, the vehicle attack happened about 3:50 p.m. at Atlantic and Kernan boulevards where members of the Republican Party were in the tent registering voters. Timm is accused of pulling up, driving through the tent and striking their table.

“It happened so quickly,” said Nina Williams, a volunteer. “I just barely got out of the way.”

Lt. Gayle said at some point after, Timm stopped, took a video and “flipped off” the people who were inside the tent before driving away. Investigators are monitoring social media to see if the video shows up.

No injuries were reported. One of the volunteers provided photos of the older brown Chevrolet driving away.

UPDATE: Jack Posobiec is all over it.

OH SWEET MOTHER OF...

From 1861 until 1865, over 600,000 Americans DIED, airhead.  And that's not counting the men who were wounded.  The "darkest of times?"  Really want to run with that?

Maybe mix in some history on your reading list.  Just a thought.

MAXIM

In the United States, stupid people can still get high-paying jobs.

WHY YOU GOT TRUMP

This just in.  Mitt Romney has no principles.  At all.

WAY FORWARD

I don't see a problem here.  Compare guys who put their lives on the line for the defense of this country, probably losing more than a few friends in the process, to Gender Studies majors who currently work as Starbucks baristas or Wendy's drive-through window people.

Because they're exactly the same. 

Don't you have another brother you could marry?

QUICK QUESTION, LOSER

Why would Trump need one?  I thought Jug Ears completely fixed health care.

WORTH YOUR TIME

A long one from National Review on the first Episcopalian Pope.

SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN

Medicare For All, baby.

The Associated Press said Thursday that it is unable to declare a winner of Iowa’s Democratic caucuses.

 

Following the Iowa Democratic Party’s release of new results late Thursday night, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg leads Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by two state delegate equivalents out of 2,152 counted. That is a margin of 0.09 percentage points.

 

However, there is evidence the party has not accurately tabulated some of its results, including those released late Thursday that the party reported as complete.

THEY'RE CALLED GRIPS, CHARMING BILLY

Look into the idea of getting one.

NO WAY IN HELL

Not if Willard doesn't want to waste a boatload of money anyway.

KAMMI?

You needed to convince 67 US Senators to remove a sitting US president from office.

You didn't get close. 

It happens (see impeached Democratic president Bill Clinton).

Get over yourself.

UPDATE: Meaning what, Owrance?  You have no idea how this country works, do you?

UPDATE: Yeah, Democrat.  Sure they did.

BABYLON BEE STILL ON TARGET

Damn, those guys are good.

IN OTHER NEWS...

Elderly lounge singer gets hysterical again.

CRAP, NOT GIVING A

And the reason why I should care is what exactly?

UH HUH

The Democrats allowed Bill Clinton to get away with a real crime, Rash.  Perjury before a grand jury.  Not some concepts the House invented because they couldn't find anything else actually illegal.  So look into the idea of sticking a sock in it.

UPDATE: Give it up, Tommy.  You'll be rid of him in 2024.  And it's your own fault.

UPDATE: As of right now, I'm done with "official" conservatism.

UPDATE: Why You Got Trump.

UPDATE: Skupp's down.  No one cares.

FINAL STAGE TDS

Jenny Rubin's gone.

UPDATE: Yeah. Sure, Jen.

I HAVE TO ADMIT THIS

I completely misread Arizona Democratic senator Krysten Sinema.

Enjoy your future, Kammi.  Needles and human crap on the streets.

DON'T GO THERE, FAVS

Just don't.

BITTER MUCH?

US Senate loser to Josh Hawley?

UPDATE: You're done, Claire.  Nobody in this state gives a crap anymore.

SO...

Don't learn how to code then or not or...

UPDATE: Don't recall asking you, Susie.

UPDATE: Yeah sure, Mags.  Iowa was the Orange Man's fault.

LIVE FROM IOWA

The American political party running on "Medicare For All" presents the Iowa caucuses.

A lack of results in the Iowa caucuses didn’t stop the upper tier of the Democratic presidential candidates from pre-emptively declaring a strong finish and moving on to New Hampshire.

 

As the political world waited Monday night for hard numbers in the state that kicks off the presidential nominating calendar -  the Iowa Democratic Party was dealing with a debacle - saying they had found “inconsistencies in the reporting” of the results from caucus precincts across the state.

But Trump's the dumb one.

UPDATE: White guy weighs in.

YEAH, SURE, CHRIS

That's what your eleven-year old told you.

ALWAYS REMEMBER

"Illegitimate" American elections are elections that Democrats lose.  Adam "Piece Of" Schiff.

FOLLOW-UP QUESTION

Do you seriously think that I care whether the president of the United States knows me?

WHAT GOES AROUND...

The New York Times is pissed.

Alas, no one ever lost money betting on the cynicism of today’s congressional Republicans. On Friday evening, Republican senators voted in near lock step to block testimony from any new witnesses or the production of any new documents, a vote that was tantamount to an acquittal of the impeachment charges against President Trump. The move can only embolden the president to cheat in the 2020 election.

 

The vote also brings the nation face to face with the reality that the Senate has become nothing more than an arena for the most base and brutal — and stupid — power politics. Faced with credible evidence that a president was abusing his powers, it would not muster the institutional self-respect to even investigate.

 

Want to know who killed impeachment?  The Democrats killed impeachment.  Faced with much more than credible evidence that Bill Clinton COMMITTED A FELONY WHILE IN OFFICE, his party let him skate. 

 

So what say you bitches cry me a freaking river?

ATTENTION AMERICA

A town called Kansas City, Kansas actually exists.

UPDATE: How about we file this one with Jug Ears' memorable "57 states" remark, you stone-cold United States Senate loser to Josh Hawley?

OOOOOOOOOOH KAY

I'll take your word for it.

HOW SCREWED ARE THE DEMOCRATS?

Ketchup Boy is thinking of taking another run at it.

DEFLECTION

Nanner McBotox ain't taking the hit for this one.

The Senate vote Friday against permitting more testimony or documents in the impeachment trial did more than put President Trump on the fast track to acquittal, Nancy Pelosi says; it forced John Roberts into a bad place. "It is a sad day for America to see Senator McConnell humiliate the Chief Justice of the United States into presiding over a vote which rejected our nation’s judicial norms, precedents and institutions which uphold the Constitution and the rule of law," she tweeted on Saturday. The 51 votes against witnesses all came from Republicans, NBC reports, including Mitch McConnell, the majority leader. Had the Senate vote been 50-50, Roberts could have stepped in to break the tie. The chief justice ruled that out Friday, saying, "I think it would be inappropriate."

MEACH?

What if he'd gotten "witnesses" and "testimony" and everything else you wanted and the Senate had come to exactly the same conclusion that they're going to come to anyway?  That there's nothing there.  Would you shut up about it or call it a "sham?" 

Never mind, I already know the answer to that.

You're an Episcopalian, Meach.  Stick a sock in it.

QUESTION

Is it just me or does anyone else find it hysterically funny when Cigar Store questions the "legitimacy" of anybody or anything?

Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann Warren2020 Dems celebrate Black History Month Critical Iowa poll scrapped over apparent coding errorPelosi says it was 'sad' to see McConnell 'humiliate' Chief Justice Roberts while presiding over witness voteMORE (D-Mass.) introduced a seemingly awkward dynamic into the impeachment proceedings when she asked if Republicans’ likely refusal to allow new witnesses in President TrumpDonald John TrumpCoronavirus death toll rises to 304 in ChinaMichael Moore: Clinton comments about Sanders 'divisive,' 'cruel' and 'a lie'Palestinian Authority cuts security ties with US, Israel following Trump peace plan announcementMORE’s Senate trial would diminish trust in the chief justice or the Supreme Court.

 

"The question from Sen. Warren is for the House managers," Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, who is presiding over the trial, began.

 

"At a time when large majorities of Americans have lost faith in government, does the fact that the chief justice is presiding over an impeachment trial in which Republican senators have thus far refused to allow witnesses or evidence contribute to the loss of legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution?" he read.

 

Just wondering.

REFIGHTING THE WAR

CNN's new White House correspondent thinks this is a serious take.

Are they American states or not, candy ass?  Because if you want to write them out of your little socialist theme park, quite a few of us would be only too happy to go.

UPDATE: Yeah okay, sure.  The American Civil War.  The gift that keeps on giving.

RHETORICAL QUESTION

Insofar as the Confederate States of America has a better claim to separate nationhood than the "Palestinians" do (and I'm actually not joking), I'm really not sure why I should care about this.

So … that would be a no on the peace plan, we assume? At an Arab League meeting in Cairo earlier today, Mahmoud Abbas announced that the Palestinian Authority would be “cutting all relations” with both the Israel and the US over Donald Trump’s peace plan.. Abbas has made similar threats in the past, but this time might be different — perhaps even more than Abbas thinks.

Here's the deal, "Palestinians."  If you seriously expect somebody else to freely hand you a state, you don't get to bitch about, well, anything.  At all.  Borders, what goes on inside, any of it.  If that bothers you, go win your own damned state.

Like the Israelis did.

HOW TO BE AN ANGLICAN

(A) Say something Christians have believed for millennia.

(Deux) Get criticized for it.

III. Apologetically walk it back.

The top archbishops and bishops of the Church of England have issued an apology for a statement released last week which declared only married heterosexuals should have sex.

 

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbishop of York John Sentamu said they took responsibility for the announcement.

"We as archbishops, alongside the bishops of the Church of England, apologise and take responsibility for releasing a statement last week which we acknowledge has jeopardised trust.

"We are very sorry and recognise the division and hurt this has caused."

Kinda why I don't write about these people anymore.  It's just too easy.