COMES THE DAWN

This is interesting.  Seems that both British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, no relation (as far as I know except that both our families may have been Scots Borderers at some point back along the line and we're related that way) and CNN reporter Jake Tapper think that it's entirely possible that China may have been...you know...lying about the Chinese Flu.

Imagine that.  Communists lying.

The PM's reaction over at the Home Office combined with the considerable anger already evident over here suggest that once this does all blow over, China will have a considerably more difficult time getting back in the world's good graces than it thinks it will have.  As for Jake, I wonder if his contract with TDS-TV is coming up and he'd like to begin to put distance between himself and Jeff Zucker's Funtime Playhouse so that he can become a real journalist again.

Send @SharylAttkisson a DM, Jake.  She might be able to hook you up.

UPDATE: DOWN GOES BLOOMBERG!!  DOWN GOES BLOOMBERG!!

HERE'S AN IDEA, BERNIE

Maybe we first get the "Palestinians" to stop indiscriminately lobbing rockets into Israel.

GOT THAT RIGHT

Sure would be great if America actually had some, Chris.

TREACHER 2024

Read this.

You might think you have problems right now. Perhaps you imagine the coronavirus is having an adverse effect on your life. Maybe you've lost your job, or you're worried it will happen soon. Maybe you're sick, or your loved ones are sick. Maybe you've been cooped up in the house for weeks, terrified that you might be infected and dreading the idea of spreading this disease. Maybe you're confused about what happens next, and you've given up on finding any answers. Maybe this whole crisis has left you sleepless and scattered and filled with despair.

 

Well, stop whining. You lack perspective.

Now read the rest of it.

UPDATE: Read this too.  Only take you a second.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

They're something you can use to buy your soup.

SCHADENFREUDE

Maybe it's just me but I can't read this tweet without thinking that Gam-Gam currently feels something very much like...delight.  Even hard-left Democrats like California governor Gavin Newsom or New York governor Andrew Cuomo can find good words to say about the effort Donald Trump is putting in to stopping the Chinese Flu and I'd like to think that if the Trump Administration found a way through this morass, two of the most delighted people in the world would be Governors Cuomo and Newsom.

Hillary, on the other hand, does nothing but snark.  Anything Trump or anyone in his administration says or doesn't say is wrong whereas the Chinese are always right and always believed.  I get the distinct impression that a couple hundred thousand dead Americans wouldn't bother the old fraud that much.  Not only did the United States refuse to automatically grant her the presidency that was obviously and rightfully hers but it actually made her...shudder...campaign for the position among the...shudder...deplorables who not only wouldn't vote for her (still don't feel like walking back that remark, H?) but made her lose to...shudder...Donald Trump.

Serves 'em right.

Kind of why I supported Trump last time even though I passionately hated the idea (I was a Cruz man until Trump's nomination back in '16).  Not only were her policies leftist cartoons but Hillary Clinton was and remains one of the most vile and repulsive political figures either party has ever put forward for office in this country's history.  She has no accomplishments of her own, the only thing that got her the Senate seat from New York was who she was married to and books describing her "thought" are completely worthless, useful only to start a fire in your fireplace.

As previously mentioned, not all Democrats hate Donald Trump with the psychotic hatred Hillary can effortlessly work up.  A hatred that revolts against any sort of approval of Donald Trump, can make dead Americans serve its evil purpose and will quite happily back an obviously and relentlessly lying government in preference to her own.

"Traitor" is a smidge too harsh of a term.  But "useful idiot" fits.

UPDATE: Gam-Gam's not the only Democratic leftist positively giddy about the prospect of hundreds of thousands of dead Americans just to own Trump. #MeetBeijingJenny

NEVER MIND

Know who else is lying about the Chinese Flu?

BACK TO YOU, EDWARD R.

Parody "news network" CNN gets a little "serious journalism" in.

THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

And Democratic Party Money-Laundering.

SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE

Joe's looking at one of these.

"You're nothing to me." A former Joe Biden aide says those words are still ringing in her ears after he allegedly sexually assaulted her in 1993, the Huffington Post reports. The accuser, Tara Reade, went on a podcast this week and said Biden kissed her, thrust his fingers inside her, and got upset when she pushed him off: "Come on, man!" he supposedly said. "I heard you liked me." Reade claims he then jabbed a finger at her and said she was nothing: "And he was right. That's how people treated me ... I have no platform, I am no one and to him I'm nothing." Reade was among eight women who accused Biden in April of inappropriate touching, but says she kept quiet about the rest after enduring a wave of online harassment.

Anything to it?  Since I refuse to play Kavanaugh Rules, it's too early to tell either way.  But I would love for Kammi, Mazie, all the rest of the Democratic Congress, American "professional journalism," too many Twitter idiots to count and the rest of the Democratic Kavanaugh lynch mob to explain to me why this young woman shouldn't be believed.  #MeToo?  #BelieveAllWomen? Care to weigh in here?

How will the media handle it, assuming they do?  If past performance is indicative of future results, America's "professional journalists" will tweet that they're investigating the story, sit on it for a month and then declare that there's nothing there which one prominent Democrat used to think would be a horrible idea that would send a horrible message.

Former vice president Joe Biden, who was scrutinized for his handling of sexual harassment allegations made in Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s 1991 Senate confirmation hearings, said Monday night that any woman’s public claims of assault should be presumed to be true.

 

Asked for his thoughts on the allegations of sexual assault made Sunday against federal judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Biden said the episode “brings back all of the complicated issues that were there” nearly three decades ago.

 

As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden presided over the confirmation hearings for Thomas during which Anita Hill alleged the nominee had sexually harassed her while he was her boss. Biden allowed personal questioning of Hill from the all-male Senate panel, and though he voted not to confirm Thomas and later apologized for his handling of the hearings.

 

Biden, who is considered a possible 2020 presidential candidate, was asked by reporters Monday night whether he believed Hill’s claims.

 

“Oh, I thought she was telling the truth at the beginning,” Biden said. “I really did.”

 

Speaking generally, Biden added, “For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real, whether or not she forgets facts, whether or not it’s been made worse or better over time. But nobody fails to understand that this is like jumping into a cauldron.”

 

End of the day, will this affect the November election?  Probably not.  A party that couldn't be bothered by Bill Clinton's rapes isn't going to lose any sleep over this. Although I can think of one scenario where the Democrats might want to keep this story alive.  If they decide that Biden's going to get massacred in the fall, this would be a handy excuse to dump him and nominate the Communist, Cigar Store or Andrew Cuomo.

UPDATE: Two years ago, Alyssa Milano tweeted herself into a rhetorical corner.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

Of all the headlines CNN's ever published, the following is the CNNiest.

SOMETHING WRONG, CHINA?

Was it something that you and you alone we did?

UPDATE: Seriously, China.  We're here for you.

MAYBE SIT THIS ONE OUT

COUGHBENGHAZICOUGH

UPDATE: Give it a rest, Gam-Gam.

ACT OF WAR

If you are seriously dumb enough to believe that once the Chinese Flu blows over, this country's relationship with China can or should proceed as if nothing happened, give this a quick look.

China is SOLELY responsible for this situation.  Never forget that.

STELTER THEATRE

Tonight's episode: The Madcap Misadventures Of The Journalisto-Clueless

Must be a day of the week ending in "y" because Brian Stelter of Völkischer Beobachter CNN is mad at Donald Trump.  What's got Bri-Bri's panties in a bunch this time?

The Fox News presidency has taken a dangerous turn.

As the coronavirus crisis deepens all across the United States, the Trump administration is favoring Fox and turning down almost all other networks' interview requests. It's the politicization of a pandemic.

 

What did you call it when Nanner McBotox put a bullet into the back of the head of the stimulus package that had been agreed to in favor of a bill containing every dumbass Democratic idea, if you'll pardon the redundancy, of the last four years or so?  Honest legislating?  Leadership?  Doing the people's business?

 

[Trump] has given interviews to Fox but has declined virtually all other interview requests.

 

Why in the world would that be?  Might it have something to do with the unassailable fact that Völkischer Beobachter CNN has had it in for the President ever since the very moment that it became clear that Donald J. Trump had defeated Hillary Clinton and would become the next president of the United States of America?

 

Too strong?  I don't think so.  Not when your "news network" helped cheer lead the "Russian collusion" debacle, the Mueller Report or your various 25th Amendment discussions.  Or when it basically bought and reported every slur against Brett Kavanaugh the Democrats could invent and gave Mikey Nats as much air time as he wanted.

 

I could go on.  But you lost my trust a long time ago.  You don't like the President, you threw out objectivity at least three years ago and anyone whose brain still works can see it.

 

Tater, I realize that taking eight years off from doing anything at all and then trying to get back into it again is tough.  And I do realize that American "journalists" spent all eight years of the Obama Administration not covering the old fraud to any degree since you all had your lips on Obama's junk.

And journalism's hard when you've got your lips on somebody's junk. 

 

But if you seriously believe that misspellings in presidential tweets is an issue that anyone of any station anywhere in the world cares anything whatsoever about, then the only logical explanation for the following complete waste of time that I can come up with is that you hate the guy's guts, always have and always will.  So why in the world should he waste his time talking to you?

 

ALLIE GIRL?

A couple things, dumbass.

(1) "We" WERE well on our way to "responding to people's needs" until Nanner McBotox popped a cap in the previously-agreed-to stimulus package in favor of a bill with a whole lot of "completely dangerous and unacceptable" Democratic crap that had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the country's current situation.  Company board "diversity," paying off the student loans of Gender Studies majors/Starbucks baristas, giving Murder Inc. Planned Parenthood, millions and millions more public dollars, etc.  Basically, every single Democratic garbage proposal since Trump's election.

(2) Even with the able efforts at cover from the Democratic Party Steno Pool American "news media," none of this sat at all well with the American people who couldn't for the life of them understand what Nanner McBotox's SJW pork had to do with either the Chinese Flu or the effect that the Chinese Flu has had on their lives. 

All they knew was that the Democrats used their personal family situations to advance a party agenda which couldn't be normally passed and they were pissed off about it.  And, from what I've seen here and there, the American people still are which probably explains Nanner's quick cave.

Along with the giddy anticipation of listening to Joe Biden attempt to justify it.

UPDATE: Go ahead, Communist.  I dare you.  Do this and Trump wins going away.

STRETCHING A BUCK

$40,000,000,000.00 doesn't go nearly as far as it once did.

UPDATE: Straight up.

AYFKM??

Before all this is over, you may run completely out of money.  You may even, God forbid, lose your job.  But if New York Congressthief Jerry "Right In The" Nadler "s" gets his way, you'll be able to rest happy in the knowledge that your sacrifices helped save NYC's non-profit museums.  Not sure what "non-profit museums" can do with $4 billion dollars but I'm not a congressthief.

IMPORTANT HEALTH TIP #2

The Apostle Paul's advice to Timothy, "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities (1 Timothy 5:23)," does not give you the right to expect any health benefits at all from downing an entire large bottle of Jim Beam in one sitting.

IMPORTANT HEALTH TIP #1

When your physician urges you to "stay hydrated" or to "drink plenty of fluids," he is referring to water rather than paint.

CHINESE COLLABORATOR SAYS WHAT?

I guess Gam-Gam figures that Nanner McBotox and the Democrats will succeed in torpedoing the American economy so she needs to get as much money from Beijing as she can.

Okay, how about these words?  China will pay and pay dearly for this pandemic which it and it alone caused and has not stopped lying through its teeth about.  Unless Beijing admits its sole culpability, the relationship between our two countries will enter a freeze that may literally take decades to thaw.  If it ever does.

AND NOW...IDIOTS

Chris Cilizza.  Your one-stop shop for the best pre-school-level "political analysis."

They don't have to when they've got people who "don't, uh, recognize borders" carrying them across.  You lefties think that insouciantly tossing out inane bumper stickers like that one constitutes a serious contribution to the conversation.  You know, something along the lines of "What if they gave a Chinese Flu and nobody ended up with a job because the Democratic Party refused to pass a stimulus package that didn't include paying off the student loans of Gender Studies majors forced to work McDonald's drive-through windows just to put food on the table and all because of that pandemic that the Chinese caused and then relentlessly lied about?"

ATLANTIC?

Stop.  Just...stop.  This stupid crap doesn't intimidate anyone anymore.

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING

The following doesn't apply to me.  I live in St. Louis County, just west of the River Des Peres.  Since St. Louis County is an entirely different legal entity than St. Louis City (there's a tedious, boring explanation for why if anyone wants to read it), Lyda's writ's no good here.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY: Hold my beer.

This shouldn't bother me much.  I don't own an automobile, the reason why I live where I do is that there's a supermarket/pharmacy just across the street and that's been just about the only place I ever go for several years now.  I'm used to social distancing.

PAY ATTENTION

(1) I don't know or care how other evangelicals, real or imagined, feel but as far as I'm concerned, it comes down to this.  We're all "morally bankrupt," Sulu.  Even you.  "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."  That's kind of why Jesus had to come into the world.

(2) Since we're all morally bankrupt, we are also aware, or at least we should be, that the president of the United States is most emphatically not and never will be this country's Presiding Bishop.  He is the USA's First Civil Servant or its First Government Employee, if you like.  And that's all.  Donald Trump is a sinner just like EVERY SINGLE OTHER PRESIDENT THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER HAD, starting with George Washington.

(3) Your tweet implies that you think Democrats are moral paragons which seems more than a little odd to this evangelical considering that it was a Democrat who threw this country's Japanese-American citizens into concentration camps simply because of how they looked.  A smidge racist, if you ask me, but I guess not all that surprising given that the Ku Klux Klan was basically the Democratic Party's paramilitary organization for many decades.

(4) By the way, Jesus never much cared for people who enjoyed thanking God that they were not as other men are and I guess He still doesn't.  Just a quick heads-up.

ANY OTHER OPINION IS WRONG

Jim Treacher bottom-lines it.

I DARE YOU

Read this Classless "News" Network article and then try to convince me that CNN actually doesn't have it in for Donald Trump and hasn't since the moment the election was called for him.

COLLABORATORS

Lady Haw-Haw.

Some communist Chinese toady journal.

At this rate, Gam-Gam, you can have the Chinese write these things for you and all you'd have to do is sign your name to them.

UPDATE: They'd be happy to do it too.  It looks as though the Communist Chinese will do anything for their American ass-kissers.

STELTER THEATRE

CNN's drama-queen-in-residence (bstelter@gmail.com) is all offended.










My goodness.  What "shameful" thing did "tiny cable channel OANN" do?  This, apparently.

Got news for you there, Edward R. [I saw what you did.  Sweet. - Ed] The painful fact is that OANN told the truth which I guess would be "shameful" to a Democratic Party house stenographer like you.  Because that is precisely what is going on.

Your "profession" had it in for Trump since long before anyone knew what the Chinese Flu was and well before he was even inaugurated.  Remember Russian "collusion?"  Remember the 25th Amendment debates?  Remember the Mueller Report?  Remember the relentless lies told about Brett Kavanaugh which you went ahead and reported as fact?  Remember all those books that were going to "blow the lid off" the Trump Administration and, well, didn't?

Remember impeachment?

Remember this?

You Democratic Party house stenographers ran with that one for a long time.  No wonder our response to the virus has been so poor, our idiot president shut down the pandemic response office.  Except that he didn't, something that a little actual journalism would have quickly discovered.  But never let a good anti-Trump tidbit go to waste, even if it's crap. 

Nowadays, we have a full-blown pandemic floating around out there so how do American journalists choose to cover it?  By obsessing over whether calling the Chinese Flu the Chinese Flu is "racist."  Because that's what concerns everybody in the whole wide world, Bri-Bri.  Not the health of their families or friends who might possibly get sick and maybe even die of a disease that began in China and was thoroughly botched by China, resulting in deaths all over the world.

Everybody everywhere is only concerned whether or not Communist liars claim to be offended by the way people label a disease.  That's the real story here.

UPDATE: Guess what, Phil.  That's exactly what's happening.  As far most of us are concerned, American "journalists" are on the same moral level as WWII Nazi collaborators.

UPDATE: Nor can viruses grasp the concept of races, vacuum skull.

UPDATE: I'll need to check the research first.

UPDATE: Yeah, okay, Bri-Bri.  Tell us all about "legitimate, serious journalism."

GO TELL BEN RHODES-Y

The old gray goose is dead.

Well, we did offer to help them, Poindexter, but the mullahs turned us down.  But I'll tell you what a real moral abomination is.  For reasons known only to your perverted sense of "morality," you shepherded through the "nuclear deal" with Iran which would have greatly eased the way for Tehran to get itself a nuclear weapon or five and basically start threatening its immediate and not-so-immediate neighbors.  Add to that all that cash you airlifted in so the regime could waste a few more Americans, Israelis and/or dissident Iranians without going personally bankrupt.

Remember what God Incarnate said on the Mount.  Whatever judgment you use to judge others will be used to judge you.  So if you want to complain about "whataboutism," you can go ahead and take it up with the Risen Lord.

GOING RATE

I wonder how much the Red Chinese paid Lady Haw-Haw* for this tweet.

*If you don't understand this reference, Google "Lord Haw-Haw."

Gam-Gam, since your laziness and incompetence got FOUR PEOPLE KILLED in Benghazi, I'd sit this one out if I were you.

N/A

You know the regular refrain from the anti-gun idiots about how nobody needs a gun when you have the police to protect you?  Philly just cut the ground out from under that one.

THIS...IS...JEOPARDY

I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for $500, Alex.

BLOWN ABOUT BY EVERY WIND OF DOCTRINE

Mitt?  If you meet an actual principle in the road, kill it.  This "telling people whatever you think they want to hear" crap is kind of why you lost AND Why We Have Trump.

THAT'S CHINA'S STORY

And the Communist Chinese liars are sticking to it.

I hope Donald Trump and particularly American business understands something.  The relationship between this country and Communist China cannot possibly resume on a wait-six-months-and-then-pretend-like-absolutely-nothing-happened basis. 

The Communist Chinese have killed people.

Maybe it was an accident; accidents happen, you know.  That they do.  And if Communist China had just admitted that the Chinese Flu got away from them, we wouldn't be having this conversation.  But as long as Peking persists with this moo goo gai crap story of theirs about how this is all the fault of the United States, political and business relations between our two countries cannot automatically go back to the way they were before all this broke.

A price must be paid.  And Peking has got to pay it.

WIN/WIN

The nice part about public health crises, real or deliberately ginned up for entirely political reasons, is that they give leftists a chance to get their inner-Stalinist freak on.

UPDATE: Dude's already pulled the tweet. Good thing I screencapped it.

DANGEROUS GROUND

Insofar as Jesus said, "For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again," and insofar as many on the left who haven't seen the inside of a serious church since their infant baptisms but still enjoy telling conservative Christians what Christ really meant, I'd look into seriously dialing back this kind of talk.

YUP

That we do.

Will we?

That remains to be seen.  I don't know exactly what getting tough with the Red Chinese would involve.  But the Chinese Flu has cost the lives of far too many Americans.  And the Red Chinese are currently lying through their teeth about their sole responsibility for all this.

That can't go without serious consequences or it will happen again.  At the very least, Beijing has got to fess up and honestly own this without idiotically trying to blame others.

The Christian term for that, of course, is "repentance."

COMMUNIST PLOT

The Useful Idiot^TM returns.  "Interesting," Chris?  It would be about as "interesting" as Lee Harvey Oswald calling a presser on November 23, 1963 to urge Washington to join him in trying to determine who was responsible for the piss-poor security arrangements at Dealey Plaza and not focus on who pulled the trigger because at this point, what would assigning blame for the assassination accomplish other than to deflect us from the Big Picture?

But you do you.

UPDATE:  We get it, NBC.  "Aid and comfort to the enemy" is your thing now.

AND THE FULLNESS THEREOF

Why the Chinese Flu doesn't scare me.

DIVINE RIGHT OF PRESIDENTS

New York Times neo-monarchist reporter Erica Green (erica.green@nytimes.com) just HATES it when "fascists" refuse to act all fascisty. 

#ThatsTheWayTheUnitedStatesIsSupposedToWorkKid  #TenthAmendmentRULES #ReadTheConstitutionSomeDamnedTime

UPDATE: One of the truly remarkable aspects of the Chinese Flu is the number of allegedly-intelligent people it has exposed who have absolutely no conception of how the government of the United States is supposed to work.

"TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES"

Is this now how we're going to spin what sounds an awful lot like real life?

BODIES IN THE STREETS

Joe Biden has a simple plan for fighting the Chinese Flu.  Do the exact opposite of whatever Donald Trump suggests.  Restrict travel to the US from other countries?  HELL no!!  Open the gates wide and let anyone in from anywhere in the world who wants to come, no restrictions, even if, as Max Roser suggests, more dead people would result than would otherwise happen.

The Doddering Old Fool will fight Donald Trump to the last drop of your blood.

UPDATE: Take it to the bank.

UPDATE: Right.  Here's the real story.  Some time back, Trump was playing with the Lil Epidemiologist set his mommy and daddy got him for his birthday.  He mixed a little of this with a little of that and out came the Chinese Flu. 

Idiots.

Vox, is heavy drinking a prerequisite for writing for the sick journalistic joke you've turned yourselves into?  I would think it would have to be.

UPDATE: What's better than some simpering toady posting Red Chinese talking points on Twitter?  When a "legitimate" American news source freely gets the word out for them.

UPDATE: The Commies are blown and the Commies know they're blown.

DEAR CONNECTICUT DUMBASS

This may come as a shock and a bitter disappointment to you Democrats but the United States of America has never been, is not now and, God willing, never will be a monarchy. 

Good LORD, you're an idiot.

With sincerest affection,

People Who Are Familiar With The Tenth Amendment To The US Constitution

UPDATE: It boggles the mind how baffled, confused and frightened liberals get when America works exactly the way it's supposed to.

DEUTERONOMY 6:16, MATTHEW 4:7

Give 'em a look some time, Ken.  You're going to need them down the road.

YOU KNOW YOU'RE BLOWN

When your official deflections are this ludicrously inept.

MAKES ME NO NEVER MIND

I guess my Blues will remain champions.

WHO ASKED YOU?

Let me bottom-line it for you, Gam-Gam. 

(1) You lost the 2016 presidential election.

(2) Not only did you lose the 2016 presidential election, you lost the 2016 presidential election to DONALD J. TRUMP which means that DONALD J. TRUMP is the current president of the United States of America.

And you aren't.

(3) How could anyone possibly lose a US presidential election to DONALD J. TRUMP?  In your case, it had a great deal to do with the fact that you ran the single most incompetent presidential campaign since GOP, Inc. tried to convince us in 2012 that Mitt Romney was a genuine conservative who genuinely shared genuine conservative values.  Still think calling them "deplorables" was a good idea?  Found Wisconsin on a map yet?

(4) Given the incontestable facts that you're completely useless at any and all political matters and that you're nowhere near as smart as you think you are, do you really think it's wise for you to give advice to anyone at all about anything at all?

(5) You may not like the fact that DONALD J. TRUMP is the president of the United States of America.  But when he wakes up tomorrow morning, DONALD J. TRUMP will still be the president of the United States of America whereas when you wake up tomorrow morning, you'll still be a bitter, worthless loser.

Glad we could have this little talk.

AS LONG AS THERE ARE CHICAGOS

Translation: the Communist has the Imaginary-American community frickin' locked down.

NEOLOGISMS

Alexandria OhCrap-TheDummyIsMakingUpWordsNow is making up words now.

THE TWO MINUS ONE STATE SOLUTION

The woman in the black T-shirt is Michigan Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, one of the Congress's Muslim-American members.  Carefully note the map.  And remember that picture the very next time you read of Rash, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden or any other big-league leftist angrily declaring themselves to be greatly offended when you refer to them as neo-Nazis or anti-Semites.

You're not fooling anybody, Rash.

UPDATE: Lots of people out on Twitter have declared themselves shocked by Rash's T-shirt.  They shouldn't be; the fact of the matter is that the "Palestinians" do not now and have never supported a "two-state solution" and any "Palestinian" who claims otherwise is lying through his teeth.  Here is the seal of Hamas, those lovable rapscallions who get a huge kick out of indiscriminately lobbing rockets into Israel on a regular basis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the flag of Fatah, the most important faction of the "respectable" PLO. 

 

 

Pay close attention to the green blotches on the top of both.  That's what "Palestinians" have always considered "Palestine" to be and there's absolutely nothing Jewish about any of it.

DON'T STARE

Gam-Gam is having another episode.

FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW II

Stealing one of Cigar Store's ideas, James Buchanan Sanders thinks that a second American civil war would be all kinds of fun.

2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders released a reproductive health care plan Saturday that promises to ban state regulations of abortion as the Supreme Court hears a case pertaining to the same issue.

The Vermont senator’s plan promises to not only codify Roe v. Wade and to undo “all the damage” that President Donald Trump has done through pro-life legislation, but also to ban Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws.

“There has been no time in the history of this country when women, especially Black women, have had the reproductive freedom and justice that they deserve,” Sanders tweeted Saturday. “In my administration, that will finally change.”

Sanders would “ban state Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws that put undue and unnecessary burdens and regulations on doctors who provide abortion services, with the goal of restricting access.”

ASSUMING the Communist somehow gets the Democratic nomination,  ASSUMING the Communist somehow wins in November and ASSUMING the Communist somehow manages to push this abomination through the Congress...another civil war, Chris? 

Well yeah actually.

Before 1860, abolitionists were a definite minority.  Regarding chattel slavery, most people in this country took what might be called a "pro-choice" position.  That is, while they would never own slaves themselves and wanted state governments that reflected their views, they wouldn't dream of endangering the Union over this issue. 

The fact that I would never own a slave should mean absolutely nothing to you.  As long as you don't force me to support you, there is no reason at all why we can't share a nationality.

Along comes Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 and its largely-unsuccessful attempt to turn the free states into slave catchers for the slave states.  It is one thing for you to hold a view that I find morally reprehensible.  It is quite another for you to get a law passed requiring me to participate, however indirectly, in your reprehensible morality.

Add to this the single worst piece of legislation in American history, the Democratic Party's Kansas-Nebraska Act, the unsuccessful attempt to by the federal government to legally guarantee that while Nebraska would eventually come in as a free state, Kansas would come in as a slave state.  To average Americans, the "slave power" was finally seen as a faction that must constantly be placated, constantly get its way.

Or else.

The American Civil War was the most inevitable war in the history of the world.

THERE'S SOMETHING YOU DON'T SEE EVERY DAY, CHAUNCEY

What's that, Edgar?

A professional football league that tells the truth even if that means quickly and publicly owning one of its official's mistakes.

DROPPING THE MASK

Crap like this is kind of why Josh Hawley kicked your ass, Claire.  But I guess there's no point in you pretending to be a "moderate" any longer, is there?

THIS...IS...JEOPARDY

What is "Because anyone with a single functional brain cell left in their heads knows that Cigar Store's 'plans' would destroy the American economy as we have known it and plunge the world into an economic downturn from which it might never recover in any of our lifetimes?"

Donald Trump has a plan for nothing. So why did voters reject the candidate who has a plan for, well, everything?

In her year-plus on the campaign trail, Sen. Elizabeth Warren met hundreds of little girls and told them the same thing: “I’m running for president because that’s what girls do.” She would then have them make a “pinky promise” to remember that.

On Thursday, after disappointing performances in the early states and on Super Tuesday — including a third-place finish in her home state — the Massachusetts Democrat announced her exit from the 2020 presidential race, according to multiple reports. But that pinky promise is something that women and girls across the country will remember, even as the White House continues to elude them. One woman — Tulsi Gabbard — is still in the race, of the group of six women once vying for the Democratic nomination. But Warren, who at one moment was considered among the strongest contenders for the nomination, has dropped out.

NARRATOR: In your dreams.  Cigar Store's campaign was positively Hillaryesque.

 

Warren, 70, was perhaps the most competent candidate in the race, even if former Vice President Joe Biden is running as the most qualified.

To anyone who has absolutely no clue how money or taxes work.

She released dozens upon dozens of detailed policy proposals on a litany of issues throughout her campaign.

Every single one of them stupid.

“Warren has a plan for that” became a familiar refrain.

Which cost Cigar Store votes every time she opened her maize hole.

UPDATE:  Yeah.  Sure.  As long as we're pushing idiotic, brain-dead ideas, let's replace Lincoln's Mount Rushmore visage with James Buchanan's.

UNACCEPTABLE PEOPLE

Leftist hack discovers that temper tantrums don't make planes take off any faster.

COME AGAIN?

POTENTIALLY a problematic hire??

PERSPECTIVE

Know what's way worse than taking online crap from a Bernie Brownshirt?

Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenHillicon Valley: Harris presses Facebook over census misinformation | Austin cancels SXSW over coronavirus fears | Surveillance deal elusive as deadline nears | FTC sends warnings to Cardi B, other influencersKrystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti: Elizabeth Warren still aggrieved about mean Bernie brosMini-Super Tuesday: Where Biden and Sanders stand in pollsMORE (D-Mass.) said Thursday that presidential candidates are responsible for attacks their supporters are making online, adding that such attacks are a problem among supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2020 campaign. 

“I want to say for all candidates … we are responsible for the people who claim to be our supporters and do really threatening, ugly, dangerous things to others,” Warren said in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel MaddowRachel Anne MaddowKrystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti: Elizabeth Warren still aggrieved about mean Bernie brosSanders campaign co-chair says Warren would be 'outstanding choice' for VPWarren: Bailey stole the burrito because 'running for first dog' was stressfulMORE. 

The interview with the Massachusetts lawmaker was held the same day she announced she’d be ending her presidential campaign.

Running into a Bernie Brownshirt on a baseball field.

SCHADENFREUDE

Cigar Store staffers learn How Life Works.

Woebegone Elizabeth Warren staffers — heartbroken and adrift after the Cambridge Democrat tearily ended her presidential campaign Thursday following on ignominious Super Tuesday showing — cried, drank, sought comfort dogs and made personal fundraising pitches as they faced sudden unemployment.

Volunteers, staff and supporters flocked to Twitter to share bitter accusations, misty-eyed memories and pictures of new tattoos freshly inked in support of the senator.

“As someone who has worked for the Presidential candidate who dropped out after an early primary: They dont want your takes. They dont want to tell you ‘what’s next.’ They dont want to tell you who they support now. They want you to Venmo them $10 for drinks and shut up,” tweeted Bobby Bauch, Iowa training director for Warren’s campaign.

Warren built up an extensive ground game from the start, hiring a huge roster of sought-after staffers to get out the vote. But those votes never materialized in sufficient numbers, and Warren’s exit left her staff with little to do except make mournful requests that varied from practical to pathetic.

Another takeaway.  Maybe working for a candidate who has spent a couple of decades lying through her Caucasian teeth about her ethnicity for personal and professional gain was not the smartest move in the world, particularly when said white woman has the demeanor of a cross between an arrogant tenured professor and a nasty librarian.

Just a thought.

UPDATE: There are life lessons to be learned from participating in a losing presidential campaign.  Unfortunately, in order to learn these lessons, one first needs to be an adult.

MITT'S GOTTA MITT

Mitt Romney demonstrates once again why Donald Trump is the US president.

BLOWBACK

Take this to the bank.  The longer Bernie Sanders stays in this race, the more stories like this one will surface.  Because Sanders' principal enemy right now is not Trump nor is it Biden.  It is the Deep State and the Deep State protects its own.

The reason for that is simplicity itself.  At this late stage of his life, Joe Biden is an amiable, corrupt dunce.  A Washingtonian through and through, the District is Joe's whole world so he'll gladly stick to issues like gun control or "climate change" and won't raise any serious objections to anything else as long as he and/or his kids can make a little money out of it.

Joe Biden is a Democrat, after all.

As far as the Deep State is concerned, a genial sock puppet is infinitely preferable to the man who currently holds the office.  Biden will leave the Deep State alone and won't try to pretend that his word or his policy preferences mean jack to anybody.

Sanders, on the other hand, is also a loose cannon and a left-wing loose cannon isn't really all that much of an improvement over a conservative one.  Particularly since, in the unlikely event of a Sanders victory in November, that crashing sound you'll immediately hear will be the sound of American capital making for the national exits all at once.

Make no mistake, Communist.  You're in their crosshairs now.

FOE PAW

Chuckie steps in it.  Big-time.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared to threaten Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch over their potential votes in the first abortion case before the Supreme Court with the new conservative majority, during a #MyRightMyDecision rally outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

“I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price," Schumer said to a chorus of cheers. "You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."

 

Chuckie can't be serious, can he?  When his spin is this stupid and inept, that's really the only conclusion anyone can reasonably come to.

 

Schumer, instead of apologizing, doubled down on his rhetoric. His spokesman, Justin Goodman, even accused Roberts of bias for "misinterpreting" Schumer's statement. “Sen. Schumer’s comments were a reference to the political price Senate Republicans will pay for putting these justices on the court," Goodman claimed, though it's unmistakable that Schumer was threatening the justices he called out.

 

Let's see.  Mention two conservative justices by name. Don't mention the GOP at all.  Oh yeah, now I see it.  It should be perfectly obvious what Chuckie was referring to.

 

Give me a break.

 

If the times in which we live weren't bonkers, nobody would make anything of this.  Chuckie was among some of his Nazi friends and he let his brownshirt rhetoric get the better of him. 

 

No big deal.

 

But since we live in a time when Brett Kavanaugh becomes a sexual predator simply because some left-wingers want him to be and therefore declare him to be one, case closed, Chuckie gets no consideration at all.  If all this upsets him, have Chuckie complain to some leftist or other.

 

They rewrote the rulebook.  Chuckie can live with the new rules.

UPDATE: Chuckie triples down.

Chuckie? If you weren't making a threat, what difference does it make what words you used?  And how do you reconcile those words you shouldn't have used with all those Republicans "who are busy manufacturing outrage?" 

How can anyone "manufacture outrage" over nothing at all?

It's like I said before, Chuckie.  They're your rules now.  Deal with them.

UPDATE: They're not even pretending anymore.  Molly Hemingway on the sick, tasteless joke that the American news media has deliberately and intentionally turned itself into.

RIDDLE ME THIS, RASH

How on Earth do you "silence" someone by giving them a forum and letting them speak?

ALL HAT AND NO CATTLE

What happened to Cigar Store?  She not only didn't win her home state primary in Massachusetts, she finished third.  According  to Michael Graham of the Boston Herald, this is what happened.  As far as Cigar Store is concerned, at the end of the day, there is, to borrow a line from Gertrude Stein about Oakland, California, no there there.

Stop for a moment and savor with me the delicious schadenfreude of Sen. Warren’s faceplant of a POTUS campaign. However bad you hoped it might be — it was worse.

As a candidate for high public office, Liz Warren makes Martha Coakley look competent. As a champion of progressive politics, she’s done more damage than a bevy of Fox News hosts. As a representative of the quality of Massachusetts politicians she …

OK, she aced that.

How lousy is Liz Warren at running for POTUS?

Here’s former DNC chair Donna Brazile: “For Warren to come in third, or even second, in Massachusetts — that’s terrible.”

Here’s CNN liberal Dana Bash: “She lost to a man who never even campaigned in her state. She’s the senior senator in Massachusetts. … It’s an embarrassing defeat.”

And here’s the Boston Globe-Democrat: “She was, to my mind, the smartest, most exciting, inspiring, and best prepared presidential candidate since Barack Obama in 2008.” That was from a Globe columnist AFTER she lost her home state.

Week after week, defeat after defeat, the house organ of the Warren campaign kept cranking out pro-Liz agitprop. One Globe-Democrat reporter said after Liz’s New Hampshire defeat, “Warren’s done everything right!” And if you ignore the whole “getting people to vote for you” part, maybe she did.

Of course, the Globies are blaming Warren’s loss on sexism. And who’s more sexist than Massachusetts’ Democrats, right? Except maybe the misogynists of New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine — the other New England states where Warren’s campaign stunk up the joint.

With 94% of the vote reported late yesterday, Warren had won a total of 12 Massachusetts cities and townships. Out of 351. Ah, yes, those right-wing Democrats in Concord, Newton and Natick just couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a woman.

Can't add anything to all that.  I can only say that I'd like to think that Cigar Store's fundamental dishonesty may have played at least a little role in people's thinking.  After all, if you adopt a fake ethnicity to advance yourself professionally, if you spend years claiming this ethnicity only to have it blow up in your face, why should anyone trust anything else you say about anything at all?

UPDATE: Presented without comment except that it is, of course, Trump's fault.

SCHOOL'S OUT

Were American public education not such a dumpster fire, the following would signal the end of the Communist's presidential run and his complete banishment from American public life.

American Alan Gross, a prisoner in Cuba for five years during the Obama administration, is accusing Bernie Sanders of commending the communist country when the senator came to visit him behind bars.

Sanders visited Cuba as part of a congressional delegation in 2014, along with Sens. Heidi Heitkamp and Jon Tester.

During the one-hour meeting, Sanders told the prisoner that he didn't understand why others criticized Cuba, Gross said in an interview with NPR.

"He said, quote: 'I don't know what's so wrong with this country,' " Gross recalled.

He said he had a pleasant conversation with Heitkamp and Tester, while Sanders remained mostly quiet for the duration of their one-hour meeting.

"Senator Sanders didn't really engage much in the conversation," Gross said.

But near the end, the Vermont senator offered a comment to the detained American, saying he didn't see what was so wrong with the country.

"I just think, you know, it was a stupid thing for him to do," Gross told NPR. "First, how could he not have seen the incredible deterioration of what was once the grandeur of the pre-Castro era. And two, how could be so insensitive to make that remark to a political hostage — me!"

Look at the upside.  Thanks to Castro,  every single person in Cuba can read the "No Food Today" signs in the shops.  That's got to count for something.

GET A ROOM

Every man should have a woman in his life who looks at him like Marianne Williamson looks at the Vermont Communist.

NOW, NOW...

Lay off Cigar Store.

BEN'S KAMPF

Or Nazis Gonna Nazi.

AND NOW...IDIOTS

New York Times columnist Tom Friedman finally and definitively proves that he doesn't understand the United States of America and never will.  Tommy's TDS is Stage 4 so he's suggesting a "national unity" approach which will guarantee Democratic victory.

What does Tommy propose?  Basically, he thinks that whoever the Democratic candidate finally turns out to be should promise to include every Democrat who recently ran for president in his cabinet.  There is far too much stupidity in Tommy's idea to extensively quote here so I'll just hit a couple of highlights.  Tommy wants this airhead to be the US ambassador to Turtle Bay.

“I am asking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to serve as our U.N. ambassador. Can you imagine how our international standing would improve with youth worldwide with her representing next-gen America?"

Since many modern young people, wherever they live, are, like her, dumber than a bag of hammers, and since the Useless Nations is as worthless an organization as it is possible to be, I can see this.  As the old saying goes, keep your friends close and your enemies closer, preferably all together in one Manhattan office complex which really could be put to better use.

A turtle refuge, say.  Or a big-ass synagogue/yeshiva complex.

But since this is a "national unity" ticket, we'll need a token Republican.  And every single person in America, regardless of party, thoroughly loves, respects and admires the completely-unprincipled junior suck-up senator from Utah.

“I am asking Mitt Romney to be my commerce secretary. He is the best person to promote American business and technology abroad — and it is vital that the public understands that my government will be representing all Americans, including Republicans."

Tommy?  You do know that Professional Conservatism^TM frantically trying to convince the Republican base that Mitt was a genuine conservative is one of the many reasons Why You Got Trump, don't you?  As Mark Twain might say if he were still alive, "If you don't like Mitt Romney's position on abortion, wait a minute.  He's had them all."  But if the Democratic candidate takes Tommy's stupid advice, the Orange Man won't have a prayer.

If Bernie or Bloomberg or whoever emerges to head the Democratic ticket brings together such a team of rivals, I am confident it will defeat Trump in a landslide.

Tommy?  Look into the idea of strapping on the ol' pith helmet and visiting the United States some time.  You might find this country an interesting place.

UPDATE: I'm not liking Democratic chances this fall no matter what stupid crap you urge them to say there, Tommy boy.

UPDATE: REALLY think giving the Airhead the UN would be an electoral positive, Tommy?

QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN BERNIE

It should be illegal to own more than one home.