It’s Friday, August 28th, 2015…but before we begin, in keeping with our Quote of the Day and the classic Michael Ramirez (second only to the great Stilton Jarlsberg in his comedic wit, and peerless in his artistic abilities) offering above, consider the following: first, from the nation’s capital:
“The boos began as soon as Washington’s mayor said she was putting more police officers on the streets in neighborhoods affected by violent crime.They didn’t let up for the next 18 minutes as Democrat Muriel Bowser laid out her plans to address an increase in homicides in the nation’s capital.
Bowser was repeatedly heckled and interrupted by a few dozen protesters affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement during her address Thursday inside the sweltering gymnasium of a long-shuttered school in southeast Washington.
Shouting “Jobs, not jails!” and “More police is not the answer!,” the protesters accused the mayor of failing to address the root causes of violence and advocating for policies that would do more harm than good. Bowser, who is black, said she wanted “to make ‘Black Lives Matter’ more than just a hashtag.'”The hecklers said they didn’t believe her…”
Second, the latest from Ferguson, MO, hometown of the Black Lives Matter movement’s poster child for intolerable behavior:
“A suspect is in custody regarding the shooting death of Jamyla Bolden. According to court records, 21-year-old De’Eris Brown has been charged in the shooting death of Bolden after allegedly confessing he shot into her home…The 9-year-old was doing her homework while seated on a bed in the 9200 block of Ellison when she was fatally shot around 9:30 p.m. on August 18.
…Brown was arrested in 2014 after allegedly pulling a pistol on a Subway employee in the middle of the parking lot. Police said at the time that Brown called an employee of the store and said “I’m coming to your job and going to shoot up the place.” Police say he later showed up and pointed the gun at the employee saying “come talk to my nine,” referring to his gun. No one was seriously hurt in that incident. Charges in the incident were later dismissed because prosecutors said the victim did not cooperate.
In March, Brown pleaded guilty to robbery charges and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but the sentence was suspended and he was placed on five-years probation.“
So, we’re curious. In the case of De’Eris Brown and Jamyla Bolden, which Black life matters most?!? We already know the value Progressives place on unborn Blacks, but think about it: were Michael “The Gentle Giant” Brown in circumstances similar to De’Eris Brown’s (Brown & Brown: sounds like an East St. Louis…or West Baltimore…law firm!), any question he wouldn’t have hesitated to pull the trigger?
Here’s the juice: Black Lives Matter is as much about Black lives as the push for gay marriage was about matrimonial rights for homosexuals. It’s a smokescreen, friends; a distraction from the real goal of the consolidation of power in the hands of those who seek to tell you how and where to live, what to say and think and who…
…to worship.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
At the top of the Friday order, there’s trouble in Progressive paradise; as Astro would say, “Ruh roh, Rorge”:
Hillary is…
…TOAST!!! If we ran the RNC, not only would a Republican have been in the White House the last 2-1/2 years, we’d already be previewing cuts of Joe Biden’s Greatest Gaffes!
Since we introduced the subject of The Gang Who Still Can’t Shoot Straight, NRO‘s Kevin Williamson details what’s driving The Donald:
Or at least to be considered a serious candidate for it. Trump isn’t a Jewish refugee but the heir to a splendid New York City real-estate fortune, though he sometimes disingenuously suggests that he comes from modest origins, that he is a “boy from Queens,” e.g.: “Oftentimes when I was sleeping with one of the top women in the world I would say to myself, thinking about me as a boy from Queens, ‘Can you believe what I am getting?’” (Classiest boy from Queens ever, obviously.) But he is on a quest similar to Annenberg’s: to be something more than a rich guy. Trump has made many attempts at this, none of them so elegant as Annenberg’s, publishing dopey books under his name and playing circus monkey on a reality-television show.
What he is seeking is significance.
…That unspeakable need makes for great candidates and troubled presidents: George H. W. Bush did not need to be president, and Bill Clinton needed it worse than any normal human being can imagine. Bush was a war hero, a deft statesman, and the operational heir to the Reagan legacy; Clinton was a lecherous nobody governor from a backward state without much to say for himself. But he had the bug…”
If Clinton simply had “the bug”, Trump’s an Ebola carrier. We wouldn’t vote to elect him dog catcher.
In a related item, also courtesy of NRO, Jim Geraghty reports on some haunting parallels between The Donald’s disciples and the acolytes of The Anointed One:
‘Their Tie to Him Is Almost Mystical.’ [Cue Ominous Music]
Fred Barnes observes a group of Donald Trump fans in a focus group, and his first observation is a doozie:
A focus group of Trumpies on Monday night in Alexandria, Virginia, was just that—quite revealing. It was organized by Frank Luntz, Mr. Focus Group himself. He’s conducted more than a thousand of them. Yet he was at times surprised by how the gang of 29—17 women, 12 men—talked about Trump.
They view Trump as different from all the other presidential candidates. He’s not just their favorite candidate. Their tie to him is almost mystical.He’s a kind of political savior, someone who says what they think. Luntz asked them for the one word that comes to mind when they think of Trump. The word cited most was “leader.” Other words mentioned were “not a politician” and “not PC” and “decisive.”
I can’t think of anything more unnerving than being told that a group of people believe they have an “almost mystical” tie to their leader. Next you’ll be telling me people are seeing Donald Trump appear in — oh, wait, you’ve got to be kidding me . . .
Treating garden-variety political figures as quasi-messianic saviors is insufferable enough, but what’s worse, we just went through this. Do we not remember Mark Morford writing in the San Francisco press:
Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher ina new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.
Jesus isn’t coming back just to run for president.
AMEN to that; though if He were coming back to run for President, we’d bet the farm it wouldn’t be as a Dimocrat!!!
Speaking of The Donald, in yet another contribution from his Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty offers why…
Ramos Makes the Immigration Debate Angry and Bitter, Too
For those who think I never write anything nice about Donald Trump . . . boy, it’s just delicious to watch him respond to Jorge Ramos, an Univision reporter who hadn’t yet been called upon, but who decided to stand up and harangue Trump at an event in Iowa Tuesday night.
“Okay, who’s next? Excuse me, sit down. You weren’t called. Sit down. Sit down. Siddown! Go ahead. No, you’re not. You haven’t been called. Go back to Univision. Go ahead. Go ahead. Sit down, please. You weren’t called.”
The media probably will eagerly turn this story into “aspiring fascistic dictator Trump uses Stasi tactics on minority reporter,” but the video indicates it’s nothing of the sort. It’s difficult to hear exactly what Ramos is saying on the video, but it sounds more like a diatribe than a question.When Ramos was allowed back in the room, and was permitted to ask a question, he began, “Here’s the problem with your immigration plan: It’s full of empty promises.”
Last week Ramos declared, “Right now Donald Trump is, no question, the loudest voice of intolerance, hatred, and division in the United States.”
Once you’ve called a candidate the epitome of modern evil . . . I don’t think they’re obligated to grant you an interview!And for all of the howling and fury over Trump’s comment about Mexican immigrants, Ramos is the flip side of the coin in making the immigration debate angry, ugly, and bitter. He never acknowledges that Americans who want their border laws enforced have a legitimate point or are good people.He routinely uses the term “anti-immigrant” to describe those who disagree with his stance, when just about all of them support legal immigration.
He never acknowledges that there’s something wrong with entering the country illegally.He sneeringly simplifies the debate to immigrants and their friends on one side and irredeemable hateful xenophobes on the other. He’s declared, “what Republicans don’t understand is that for us, the immigration issue is the most pressing symbolically and emotionally, and the stance a politician takes on this defines whether he is with us or against us.”
One might say Ramos’s disregard for waiting his turn during the press conference is a metaphor for the disregard for the law implied in his position. You may recall another reporter passionate about the issue, Jose Antonio Vargas — legal citizen of the Philippines who came to the U.S. at age twelve and who has been living here in violation of the law since. Vargas has been eager to turn himself into the face of illegal immigrants facing deportation to home countries they barely remember. But as I wrote last year, Vargas’ determination to remain in the country led him to violate all sorts of laws: document forgery, making false statements on legal documents (signed under penalty of perjury), driving without a driver’s license, using fraudulent documents to enter White House grounds, and driving a car with headphones on. Last week we learned he was “hit with a $41,945.44 tax lien in a court notice on Jan. 7, 2015 for failing to pay taxes in 2010.” Vargas said he paid the debt in February and showed Red Alert Politics the check.
When you begin thinking your position is so righteous that the rules don’t apply to you, trouble follows.
A characteristic of the entire Progressive movement…and every policy they promote.
Since we’re on the subject of angry, bitter Liberals, though you’ve likely heard it all by now…
“Warped TV reporter Vester Lee Flanagan exasperated bosses with his ‘stiff and nervous’ delivery, his inability to use a teleprompter – and by wearing a President Obama badge during an election report, Daily Mail Online can reveal. Management at WDBJ dubbed the failed newsman the ‘human tape recorder’ because he frequently parroted what interviewees had told him rather than doing his own journalism.
Flanagan, 41, clashed repeatedly with photojournalists, belittling them in public and intimidating them with his violent temper, according to internal reports. He was also censured for wearing an Obama sticker while recording a segment at a polling booth during the 2012 US Presidential Election – a clear breach of journalistic impartiality.
The complaints are outlined in court papers seen by Daily Mail Online that include a scathing performance review carried out prior to his termination in Feb 2013…”
Yeah…but according to every leading Dimocrat, it’s because of the GUN!!!
No; as Hope n’ Change so astutely records, the fault lies with…
…a*shole who wielded it.
Shifting gears, for those still wondering how we ever got where we are with The Dear Misleader’s Iran deal, Commentary Magazine‘s Jonathan Tobin has an explanation:
“…With only two Senate Democrats announcing their opposition (Chuck Schumer and Robert Menendez), there now appears to be a chance that the White House will be able to orchestrate a filibuster of the bill if at least three more Democrats join a unanimous Republican caucus. That will make a mockery of the approval process that Congress has been going through. If it does, the blame will belong to a president who has not hesitated to use inflammatory rhetoric and heavy-handed tactics to stop Congress from interfering with a policy of appeasement of Iran. But Obama didn’t do it alone. He could never have succeeded had he not had the unwitting help of Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chair of the Foreign Relations Committee.Without Corker’s foolish belief in working with the White House and pusillanimous unwillingness to push for an approval process in line with the Constitution’s provisions about foreign treaties, the administration might never have been able to get away with sneaking through the most important foreign policy decision in a generation…”
With friends like Bob, who needs Liberals?!? Then again, WTF was the Senate Majority leader doing while…
…Senator Corksoaker was selling the country down the Dimocratic drain, aka, the Republican river?!?
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